FEL Grants: Supported projects
FEL regularly provides small grants to fund projects that revitalize and support the use of endangered languages. On this page you can see reports from a selection of the projects that we have supported. By joining FEL, you can support activities such as these.
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Grants from year: 2011
Title: Baure: the first steps towards teaching materials
Country: Bolivia
Language(s): Baure
Grantee: Femmy Admiraal
Year: 2011
Project summary
Baure is an Arawaken language spoken in the Bolivian lowlands in the department Beni, close to the border with Brazil. The speakers of Baure are all elderly people who are fully bilingual in Spanish, the dominant language in the region.
This project proposed the elaboration of teaching materials in Baure, together with the local teachers, in order to support revitalization of the language.
The outcome of the project consists of an exercise book and a teacher’s manual, including a detailed grammar section and an audio CD for listening exercises. In addition, workshops were organized to introduce the school book to the teachers. Approximately 80 teachers participated with great enthusiasm. Because the teachers are not Baure speakers themselves, the workshops focused on how they can work with the materials and learn the language together with the children.
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