Endangered Language Fund: Language Legacies Grants 2024

Grants

Language Legacies Grants, Endangered Language Fund. Deadline: 15 March 2024.

The Language Legacies grant program supports documentation and revitalization efforts throughout the world. It is open to community members and researchers from any country (with the exception of those who are eligible for the Native Voices Endowment grants). An academic degree is not required, but the application must provide evidence that the applicant can achieve the stated goals. Grants are for one year and average around $2,000 (US).

The Endangered Language Fund is a 501(c)3 founded in 1996 with the goal of supporting endangered language preservation and documentation projects. Their main mechanism for supporting work on endangered languages has been funding grants to individuals, tribes, and museums. ELF’s grants have promoted work in over 60 countries and have funded a wide range of projects, from the development indigenous radio programs in South Dakota, to recording of the last living oral historian of the Shor language of western Siberia, to the establishment of orthographies and literacy materials to be used by endangered language teaching programs all over the world.

The UN International Year of Indigenous Languages  was expanded to the International Decade of Indigenous Languages (2022-2032) to draw global attention on the critical situation of many indigenous languages and to mobilize stakeholders and resources for their preservation, revitalization and promotion.