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| The process of language endangerment, or the gradual abandonment of one language in favor of another, is going on at an alarming pace around the world.
Every two weeks the last fluent speaker of a language passes on and with him/her goes literally hundreds of generations of traditional knowledge encoded in these ancestral tongues.
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DEDUCTIBLE DONATIONS TO LIVING TONGUES INSTITUTE
- Your 100% tax deductible contribution can
help us preserve valuable information for future
generations in the specialized knowledge
contained in endangered languages. Please
consider Living Tongues Institute for Endangered
Languages, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization,
when planning your charitable giving. We rely
solely on the generosity of donors and grants to
fund our field expeditions, publications, and
assistance to indigenous communities struggling
for cultural survival. |
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Helping
Living Tongues
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Volunteering with Living Tongues
Living Tongues Institute has reached its
capacity for volunteer researchers for
Autumn 2011 and Winter 2012, but will be
accepting more volunteers for the Spring
and Summer of 2012. Please check back in
March 2012 to download and fill out an
application for the position of
volunteer researcher.
For tasks set to begin in May 2012, we
will be looking for more volunteer
researchers to help with bibliographic
research for our Language Hotspots
Database, editing online documents,
fact-checking and more. We will also be
looking for volunteer content editors,
writers and people with backgrounds in
linguistics, translation and
anthropology. All tasks will be
coordinated online, via email and Skype,
and can be performed from any country
around the world, as long as one has
regular access to the internet.
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All
human languages are
tools of creativity
and webs of
knowledge. Every two
weeks, the last
fluent speaker of an
endangered language
passes on. In this
critical time, help
us document and
maintain these
languages so that
future generations
may speak them.
Living Tongues has
many ongoing
documentation
projects currently
taking place around
the world. We need
your help to sustain
these projects. Our
mission is to record
vanishing languages
as well as create
state-of-the-art
digital audio-visual
materials in
collaboration with
speakers of
endangered language.
The
languages we are
currently focusing
on are listed below.
In choosing a
language to support,
you are helping
linguists and
language activists
document, conserve
and maintain a
language. You are
also helping future
generations gain
access to printed
materials or online
resources produced
in their own
language.
Your
generous donation
will go towards:
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Multi-media
educational
materials
such as
videos
and
talking
dictionaries,
Digital
databases
containing
maps,
recordings
of oral
history
and
endangered
knowledge
systems,
Scientific
reference
grammars,
Traditional
pedagogical
materials
such as
ABC
books,
children’s
readers
and
translated
texts,
Informational
videos
and
booklets,
Fieldtrips
for
linguists
to work
with
local
language
activists,
Language
Technology
Kits for
endangered
language
speakers. |
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Your 100% tax deductible contribution can help us preserve
valuable information for future generations in the specialized
knowledge contained in endangered languages. Please consider
Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages, a 501(c)(3)
non-profit
organization,
when planning
your charitable
giving. We rely
solely on the
generosity of
donors and
grants to fund
our field
expeditions,
publications,
and assistance
to indigenous
communities
struggling for
cultural
survival. |
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