Foundation For Endangered Languages

Foundation for Endangered Languages

The Foundation for Endangered Languages supports, enables and assists the documentation, protection and promotion of endangered languages. This website announces our varied activities, and includes our newsletter Ogmios and details of our conferences.

News

Ogmios 40 (our current newsletter) is now available from the newsletter page

Membership renewals for 2010 are now due

FEL project funding
We funded 10 new projects in 2009

FEL XIII (2009): Endangered Languages and History
The conference took place at the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan, Khorog, Tajikistan, on 24-26 September, 2009 (русский)

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 together 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.

Last updated 21 February 2010 by David Nathan.
For general enquiries contact Nicholas Ostler.