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Membership of the Foundation for Endangered Languages is open to all individuals and organisations. By joining FEL, you express your support for the thousands of human languages that face the imminent threat of extinction. Your membership fees help our international advocacy and educational activities, subsidise community-based solidarity members, and enable our annual language support grants.

Benefits of membership also include your copy of our newsletter Ogmios, conference proceedings (most membership categories), subscription to our informative mailing list, eligibility to participate in our conferences, and access to our grants.

Types of membership

We offer three types of individual memberships:

• Regular membership is open to everybody with an interest in endangered languages.
• Concession membership, at a reduced fee,  is open to full-time students and unwaged persons. Please provide evidence by email to Steven Krauwer
• Solidarity membership, with no fee, is exclusively available to members of indigenous endangered language communities who are resident outside USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, Israel, Saudi Arabia or Arab Emirates, Iceland, Norway, Switzerland or European Union. Please indicate your language on the subscription form

We offer three types of corporate memberships:

• Commercial companies
• Official bodies, including government departments and other public bodies
• Voluntary bodies, including university departments and charity organisations

Membership and FEL publications

All members receive the latest copies of our quarterly newsletter Ogmios, by email or post.

All paying memberships receive a copy of the annual FEL conference proceedings, either at the conference or by post.

Additional copies of proceedings and other publications are available at special member rates.

How to join

To become a member of FEL, go to our secure subscription page (located at Utrecht University). Or download, fill out, and post the application form (MS Word; also in PDF format).