2007-CURRENTLY FUNDED PROJECTS
The Endangered Language fund is pleased to announce that ten outstanding projects have been selected for support in our 2007 grant application cycle. As in previous years, these were selected from among a strong collection of proposals for work on endangered languages across the globe. Our choices have become more difficult each year, as better and better proposals vie for the limited funds available. This competitiveness ensures high quality, and this year's crop promises to be another great one. The awards were made for work on five continents, including, somewhat unusually, Europe. (Although Europe has many endangered languages, they tend to be better documented than most.) Four were from North America, two each from Central and South America, and one from Asia. This distribution mirrors the pattern found in the submissions. Given that we are located in North America, it is not surprising that a plurality of applications deal with North American languages. While this does not represent a complete picture of the world's languages, choosing ten out of five thousand or so is always going to be skewed in one direction or another. We are extremely grateful for the generosity of our members and benefactors for making these grants possible. If you would like to help make future grants possible, please join us.