The Institute on Collaborative Languages Research
After a two-year delay, the Institute for Collaborative Language Research (CoLang) 2022 ran in Missoula, Montana. The Endangered Language Fund supported four participants through scholarships in both the NVE and Language Legacies categories. We asked the participants to share some of their experiences and memories with us, and here is what two participants said!
From Gladys Camacho Rios: “I am an L1 speaker of South Bolivian Quechua and a PhD student in Linguistics. To me, my learning experiences at CoLang will highly benefit my country through my language activism work. Here at CoLang I have not only learned great content from my different courses, but also, I have learned a lot from the infrastructure of the courses that will allow me to better serve the community in Bolivia.” Here are some photos of Gladys’ time in Missoula.
CoLang is an opportunity for community language activists, linguists, and students of linguistics to receive training in skills needed to document, maintain, and/or revitalize minority languages. CoLang started in 2008 (as InField- the Institute on Field Linguistics and Language Documentation), and has been held every other year since.
