Foundation for Endangered Languages
| The Foundation for Endangered Languages supports, enables and assists the documentation, protection and promotion of endangered languages. This website describes
our activities, and includes our newsletter Ogmios and details of our conferences.
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News
FEL XVI will take place at the International Centre for Language Revitalisation, Auckland University of Technology, in September 2012. The conference Chair will be Professor Tania Ka'ai
Latest issue of Ogmios, the FEL
newsletter
Web news and stories on Endangered Languages
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Aims
The aims of the Foundation are:
- to raise awareness of endangered languages, both inside and outside the communities where they are spoken, through all channels and media
- to support the use of endangered languages in all contexts: at home, in education, in the media, and in social, cultural and economic life
- to monitor linguistic policies and practices, and to seek to influence the appropriate authorities where necessary
- to support the documentation of endangered languages, by offering financial assistance, training, or facilities for the publication of results
- to collect and make available information of use in the preservation of endangered languages;
to disseminate information on all of the above activities as widely as possible
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