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From K. David Harrison "When Languages Die, 2007" p. 7

CURRENT & RECENT PROJECTS INCLUDE:

  1. Language Hotspots Project - A major new global initiative to raise awareness and to direct funding and research efforts most effectively.
     

  2. Enduring Voices Project - A recently launched new initiative with National Geographic Society to highlight the most critical areas of linguistic and cultural endangerment and to begin the process of documenting and helping to revitalize these languages and cultures.
     

  3. Ös/Middle Chulym Documentation Project -
    Nearly extinct Siberian language.
     

  4. Munda Languages Project - Comprehensive documentation of grammar and lexicon of several endangered/threatened languages of India.
     

  5. The Linguists Film Project - Forthcoming film featuring our work.
     

  6. Kallawaya Language Project - New project on ‘secret’ healer’s language.
     

  7. Talking Online Dictionary Projects - Bringing voices online to many languages for many purposes.
     

  8. Eleme/Baan Project - Documentation of rapidly vanishing and poorly attested speech variety in southeastern Nigeria.
     

  9. Siletz Dee-Ni Talking Dictionary Project - Comprehensive online talking resource of nearly extinct language of Oregon.
     

  10. Altai-Sayan Language and Ethnography Project - Linguistic and ethnographic documentation of languages from Siberia/Mongolia.

   
   

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