The National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities have launched an effort to preserve endangered languages throughout the world.
The project has so far awarded $4.4 million in grants. An additional $2 million a year is now available, according to the Associated Press.
The effort is being used to preserve Native languages. The University of Alaska, Fairbanks, has received about $110,000 to digitize Yup'ik audio recordings. The Museum of the Cherokee Indian in North Carolina is using $168,000 to digitize, translate, and assess Cherokee language materials.
The Chief Dull Knife College in Montana received $100,000 to protect the Northern Cheyenne language. The University of Arizona is using $200,000 for Mohave and Chemehuevi. There are only five fluent speakers of Chemehuevi, according to a researcher.
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Project Seeks to Preserve Dying Languages
(AP 8/10)
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Effort seeks to preserve endangered languages
Wednesday, August 10, 2005
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