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The Foundation for Endangered Languages is a registered charity with membership 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. See examples of the projects we support through our grants.

Benefits of membership also include:

• regular copies of our newsletter Ogmios
• a copy of the Conference Book of our annual conference
• subscription to our mailing list
• eligibility to participate in our conferences
• access to our grants programme
• a discount on the registration fee for our annual FEL conferences

  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 and others who are resident outside the following countries: USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Arab Emirates, Iceland, Norway, Switzerland, United Kingdom or European Union. Please indicate your language on the subscription form

  We offer four types of corporate memberships:

  • Commercial companies
  • Official bodies, including government departments and other public bodies
  • Voluntary bodies, including university departments and charity organisations
  • Endangered language communities in any country, at no fee.
    Please read the conditions and application instructions on this page before registering

  Membership and FEL publications

  • All members receive the latest copies of our quarterly newsletter Ogmios, by email
  • All memberships include a free electronic copy of the Conference Book of the annual FEL conference
  • Paper copies of our newsletter, past proceedings and other publications are available at special member rates via the FEL conference registration, membership and order form (hosted for FEL by Utrecht University)
  • Free paper copies of our newsletter and of the FEL Conference Books are available to commercial companies, official bodies and voluntary bodies that are members of FEL.

  How to check your FEL membership status

  If you don't remember whether you are still a member, when your current membership expires or what your membership ID is you can visit this page. You can contact Steven Krauwer if you have any questions or if you encounter any problems.

  How to join as a new member or to renew your existing membership

  To become a member of FEL, to renew your membership, or to register for the annual FEL conference, go to our FEL conference registration, membership and order form (hosted for FEL by Utrecht University).