PREVIOUSLY FUNDED PROJECTS
2008 PROJECTS
Amy Campbell, Ramón Escamilla, Lindsey Newbold, and Justin Spence
University of California, Berkeley
Hupa Multimedia Text Corpus
Marit Vamarasi
Northeastern Illinois University
Training Rotuman Language Teachers
Thiago Costa Chacon
University of Utah
Kubeo Documentation Project
Jane Freeland and Eloy Frank Gómez
University of Southampton / Universidad de las Regiones Autónomas de las Costa Caribe Nicaragüense
Developing materials to train Mayangna Indian sociolinguistic / ethnographic researchers into community attitudes to language loss
Paulina Yourupi
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Developing a Pollapese Orthography
Marine Vuillermet
Laboratoire Dynamique Du Langage (DDL)
Saving the "Sloth Woman Myth": a Collaborative Project in Bolivia
Benson Oduor Ojwang
Maseno University
Promoting Documentation and Maintenance of Kinubi, a Minority Creole in Kenya
Jermy Imanuel Balukh
Cakrawala Nusantara Kupang
Documenting Folk Tales and Procedural Texts in Ndao
Strang Burton
Stolo Nation
Elizabeth Herrling Collection of Upriver Halq’emeylem
2007 PROJECTS
Linda Lanz
Rice University
Inupiaq Revitalization and Documentation: Digital Resources for an Indigenous Community
Heather Souter
Camperville, Manitoba, Canada
Michif Video Memories: Documenting Language and Culture in Context
Alejandra Vidal
Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas, Argentina
Documenting Pilaga: Community Language Archiving in Formosa
Heriberto Avelino
University of Toronto
Audiovisual Documentation of the Kiliwa Language
Tsuyoshi Ono
University of Alberta
Digital Documentation of Ikema Language Use
Viktoria Papp
Rice University
Northern Csango Language Documentation: Voice and Information Structure
Armik Mirzayan
University of Colorado at Boulder
Documenting the Wichita Language in Music
Michael Hughes and Jule Gomez de Garcia
California State University, San Marcos
Linguistic Database of Men's Ixil Mayan Narratives
Wilson de Lima Silva
University of Utah
Practical Language Material for Desano
Sarah Murray
Rutgers University
Dynamics of Cheyenne Discourse
2006 PROJECTS
Erin Debenport
University Of Chicago
Community Language Documentation At Sandia Pueblo
Pastor Dawari Braide
Printing Of Kalabari-English Dictionary For Kalabari Children
Amrendra Kumar Singh
Jawaharlal Nehru University
Description Of Pasi
Khawaja Rehman
Frontier Language Institute
Language Maintenance And Shift In Kundal Shahi
Robert Williams
American University in Cairo
Ghulfan Language Documentation Through Forced Migration Stories
Jerry Hall
Lane Community College
Tutudin Language Camp
Simeon Floyd
University Of Texas At Austin
Multi-Dialect Documentation of Highland Ecuadorian Quichua
Wilson de Lima Silva
University Of Utah
Documentation Of Arapaso
Joana Jansen
University Of Oregon
Documenting Yakima Sahaptin Conversation
Racquel Yamada
University Of Oregon
Karinya Language Documentation
Erich Fox Tree
Mesoamerican Sign Language Survival And Documentation Project: Modern Signs, Ancient Histories
2005 PROJECTS
Laureano Segovia
Documenting Wichi Language and Traditional Culture
Elena V. Perekhvalskaya
St. Petersburg State University
Online Documentation of Udihe
Andrew Garrett, Melodie George, and Victor Golla
University of California, Berkeley; Hoopa Valley High School; Humboldt State University / University of California. Davis
A Returning Fluent Hupa Speaker: Documentation and Digital Language Materials
Joel Nasveira Simo
Vanuatu National Language Committee
Reviving Vanuatu's Dying Languages
Mark Turin
University of Cambridge
Thangmi Shamanic Chants: Preserving An Endangered Ritual Language And Tradition From Nepal
Pastor Dawari Braide
Documentation And Preservation Of The Kalabari Language For Posterity: Now And The Future
Rosa Vallejos
University of Oregon
Documenting The Language Of The Kokama-Kokamilla People
Gratien Gualbert Atindogbe
University of Buea
A Reference Grammar Of Barombi
John P. Boyle
University of Chicago
Hidatsa Language Documentation and Revitalization
Jorge Gomez Rendon
University of Amsterdam
Documented Survey of Sia Pedee and Development of Basic Teaching Materials
Zelealem Leyew
University of Addis Ababa
Recording the Last Fluent Speakers of Kemantney
Tyler Peterson
University of British Columbia
Video Documentation of Gitksan Narratives: Legends, Life Stories, and My Day
2004 PROJECTS
April Laktonen Counceller and Jeff Leer
Alutiiq Museum and Archaelogical Repository, Alaska Native Language Center
Kodiak Alutiiq Conversational Booklet and CD
Tiemu'er
Yuger Cultural Research Office
Eastern Yugur-Chinese Bilingual Dictionary and Cultural Materials Project
Ardis Eschenberg
Nebraska Indian Community College
A Teaching Grammar of Umonhon
Andrew Cowell
University of Colorado
Early Arapaho Texts
Maria Sheila B. Zamar
University of Hawai'i at Manoa
Ayta-Sorsogon Documentation Project: Saving an Endangered Language, Saving a Community
Kirk Miller
University of California, Santa Barbara
Documenting Hadza, an Endangered Language Isolate of Tanzania
Rosemary G. Beam de Azcona
Univeristy of California, Berkeley
Continued Emergency Documentation of San Agust’n Mixtepec and Coatlan Loxicha Zapotec
Zvjezdana Vrzic
New York University
Text Collection and Digital Archiving of Istro-Romanian
Ibrahima Ouattara
University of Ougadougou
Save the Tiefo Language
Ilse Lehiste and Karl Pajusalu
Ohio State University and University of Tartu
Livonian Prosody
2003 PROJECTS
Cora McKenna and Brenda McKenna
Nambé Pueblo, NM
Tewa Dictionary and Curriculum, Nambé Dialect
Lisa Conathan and Belle Anne Matheson
UC Berkeley
Arapaho Description and Reviatlization
Nadezhda Shalamova, Andrei Filtchenko, and Olga Potanina
Tomsk Polytechnic U.; Rice U.; Tomsk State Pedagogical U.
Documentation of Vasyugan Khanty
Dmitri Funk
Russian Academy of Sciences
The Last Epic Singer in Shors (Western Siberia)
Arthur Schmidt, Rita Flamand and Grace Zoldy
Metis
The Camperville Michif Master-Apprentice Program
Cheruiyot Kiplangat
Centre for Endangered Languages, Kenya
Working to Save Ogiek and Sengwer of Kenya
Claire Bowern
Harvard U.
Bardi Language Documentation: The Laves Material
Francis Egbokhare
U. Ibadan, Nigeria
Documenting Akuku Oral Traditions
Rosemary Beam de Azcona
UC Berkeley
Southern Zapotec Language Materials
Rick Thoman and Gary Holton
U Alaska Fairbanks
The Tanacross Athabascan Sound System
2002 PROJECTS
Valerio Luciani Ascencio
Kawki language project
Preservation of the Kawki language
Maximilian Viatori
U. California, Davis
A practical Zapara phonology and morphology
Thomas McIlwraith, Regina Louie, Angela Dennis and Sally Havard
Iskut First Nations
Talking to the animals: Tahltan-language animal stories and forms of address
Rosalind Williams
Splatsin Tribe
Creation of Secwepenc Wordlist 2002
Naomi Nagy
U. New Hampshire
Preserving Faetar in the school
Chris Beier and Lev Michael
U. Texas, Austin
Iquito language documentation project
Gessiane Lobato Picanco
U. British Columbia
Documentation of Kuruaya, a moribund language of Brazil
Nikolai Vakhtin
European U. at St. Petersburg
Siberian Yupik Eskimo conversation book
Pamela Bunte and Nikole Lobb
California State U., Long Beach
Using San Juan Southern Paiute narratives in a language revitalization program
Connie Dickinson
U. Oregon
Tsafiki dictionary project
Doug Marmion
Australian National U.
Wutung language maintenance and literacy development
Susan Doty
Creek Tribe
Muskogee Creek language traditional song preservation
2001 PROJECTS
Justin T. Neely
Citizen Potawatomi Nation
Potawatomi Language Preservation and Apprenticeship Program
Mary D. Stewart
St?:lo Nation
Preservation and Revitalization of the Upriver Halq?em?ylem Dialect Language within the Family Entity
Angela M. Nonaka
UCLA
Saving Signs from Bhan Khor: Documentation and Preservation of an Indigenous Sign Language in Thailand
Mildred Quaempts
Claremont and San Diego State
Umatilla Immersion Camp
Paula L. Meyer
University of Victoria
Baha California Tiipay Comparative Dictionary
Marina Dmitrievna Lublinskaya
St. Petersburg University
Collection of Audio Material in the Nganasan Language
Kristine Stenzel
University of Colorado
The Wanano Project
Kenny Holbrook
Capitola, CA
Instruction in Northeastern Maidu
Zarifa Nazarova
Tajik Academy of Sciences
The Vocabulary of the Traditional Culture of the Ishkashim Language
Joyce Twins
Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma
Cheyenne Pedagogical Materials
2000 PROJECTS
Alice J. Anderton
Intertribal Wordpath Society
Ponca Culture in Our Own Words
Mark J. Awakuni-Swetland
University of Nebraska
ELF Omaha Language Curriculum Development Project
Melissa Axelrod, Jule Gomez de Garcia, and Jordan Lachler
University of New Mexico
Plains Apache Language Documentation
Frank Bechter and Stephen Hibbard
University of Chicago
Apsaalooke Textual And Gestural Form: Videorecording Crow and Plains Sign Talk Narratives
Barry F. Carlson and Suzanne Cook
University of Victoria
Lacandon Text Collection
G. Tucker Childs and M Djibril Batchily
Portland State University
Fieldwork on Mmani (Atlantic, Niger-Congo), a dying language of coastal Guinea-Conakry
Terry Crowley
University of Waikato
Moribund languages of northern Malakula
Linda A. Cumberland
Indiana University
A Grammar of Assiniboine
Theodore Isham
Mvskoke Language Institute
Language Immersion Camps in Mvskoke (Creek)
Linda Jordan
University of Oklahoma
Cherokee Storytelling Project
Eva Toulouze and Kaur Maegi
Tartu University
Recording and Analyzing Forest Nenets Language Materials
1999 PROJECTS
Elena Benedicto
Purdue University
Indigenous Women as Linguists
Marianne Milligan
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Menominee Phonology and Morphology
Jonette Sam
Pueblo of Picuris
An Integrated Approach to Language Renewal at Picuris Pueblo, New Mexico
Carolyn J. MacKay and Frank R. Trechsel
Ball State University
A Linguistic Description of Pisa Flores Tepehua
Yogendra P. Yadava
Royal Nepal Academy
A Study of the Dhangar Language
Delphine Red Shirt
Guilford, CT
Winyan Isnala: My Mother's Story
Yaron Matras
University of Manchester
A Description of the Domari Language of Jerusalem
James T. Collins
National University of Malaysia
Documenting and Describing the Tola' Language
Hongkai Sun
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Recording the Last Fluent Speakers of Anong, a Language of Yunnan (PRC)
Silverio Jimenez
Mexico City
The Nahuatl from Milpa Alta
Veronica M. Grondona
University of Pittsburgh
Material development for Bilingual Education among the Mocovi
David VanBik
Haka, Chin State, Burma
Lai (Haka Chin)-English Dictionary
1998 PROJECTS
Daniel Aberra
Addis Ababa University
Morphological Analysis of Shabo
Ronald Geronimo
Sells, AZ
Illustration of a Tohono O'odham Text for Children
Darrell R. Kipp
Piegan Institute
Immersion Learning of Blackfoot
Monica Macaulay
University of Wisconsin
Menominee Language and Linguistics
Eve Chuen Ng
State University of New York, Buffalo
The Structure of Passamaquoddy
Nile Thompson
Seattle, WA
Twana Language Use in Songs
Timothy Thornes
University of Oregon
Documentation of Burns Paiute
Suzanne Wash
U. California, Santa Barbara
The Last Speakers of Northern Sierra Miwok
Mary Louise Defender Wilson
Shields, ND
Broadcasting in Dakotah on KLND
Aklilu Yilma
Addis Ababa University
Recording the Last Speakers of Ongota
1997 PROJECTS
Alice Anderton
Intertribal Wordpath Society
Production of original television dramas in Choctaw and Creek
Mark Donohue
University of Manchester
Work on the Wasur languages of Indonesia
Gary Holton
University of California, Santa Barbara
Tanacross language documentation project
Andrej Kibrik
University of Alaska
Recording the last fluent speakers of Kuskokwim in Alaska
Mary Linn
University of Kansas
Preserving Yuchi, a Native American isolate
Rob Pensalfini
MIT
Preparing language materials for Jingulu of Australia
Ronald Red Elk
Comanche Language and Cultural Preservation Committee
Making a rediscovered manuscript useful to the Comanche community
Karen Somerville
Gakeemaneh/Gignamoane, New Brunswick
Immersion programs in Micmac, Maliseet and Passamaquoddy
Janne Underriner
University of Oregon
Recording the last two speakers of Klamath
Ofelia Zepeda
University of Arizona and the Tohono O'odham Nation
Further work on the Tohono O'odham (Papago) Dictionary Project