Here is an excerpt from the recent (July 10) announcement at http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-07/nsf-nnb071006.php , followed by a list of those grants pertaining to African languages. The DEL program is ongoing:
"The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) today announced the awarding of 12 fellowships and 22 institutional grants in the two agencies' partnership on Documenting Endangered Languages (DEL). This is the second round of their multi-year campaign to preserve records of languages threatened with extinction. Experts estimate that more than half of the approximately 7,000 currently used human languages are headed for oblivion in this century. These new DEL awards, totaling $5 million, will support digital documentation work on more than 60 such languages." ... Here to the best of my knowledge are the African language projects from among the larger list of projects funded for endangered languages around the world (I did not separate out the "individual" and "institutional" projects: Scott Farrar, independent scholar, Tucson, Ariz., and Jeff Good, independent scholar, Leipzig, Germany, "The Documentation and Preservation of Western Beboid Languages of Cameroon" Deogratias Ngonyani, Michigan State University, East Lansing, "Documenting Kikisi" Akinbiyi Akinlabi, Rutgers University, "Documenting Defaka and Nkoroo" Megan Biesele, independent investigator, "Documenting the Khomani and Ju/hoan Languages," Christopher Collins, New York University, "Grammar of N|u" Jeffrey Heath, University of Michigan, "Dogon languages of Mali" Ronald Schaefer, Southern Illinois University, "Documenting Edo North Languages and Oral Narratives" Russell Schuh, UCLA, "Lexicon, Linguistic Structure, and Verbal Arts in Chadic Languages of Northeastern Nigeria" Another URL with an easier to scan list is at http://interestalert.com/story/siteia.shtml?Story=st/sn/07100006aaa0314f.nw&Sys=mckhan&Fid=AFRICA01&Type=News&Filter=Africa ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Great things are happening at Yahoo! Groups. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/TISQkA/hOaOAA/yQLSAA/TpIolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AfricanLanguages/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
