Endangered Languages Project

Are you working on language revitalization in digital or virtual spaces? Check out this call for book chapters:

LINGUIST List 37.2988 FYI: Call for Book Chapters: Revisiting Virtual Breathing Spaces for Speakers of Minoritized Languages The LINGUIST List, International Linguistics Community Online.

Coming up tomorrow! Join us at noon Pacific to hear about Toroga Breda’s work to revitalize Khoikhoi: https://bit.ly/stories-from-the-heart

🌱 How can Indigenous language revitalization be supported through the arts? Join us on September 16 for the next Stories from the Heart to learn about it from real-life experiences!
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We’ll hear from Toroga Breda about his work in and around Cape Town, South Africa, to revitalize the Khoikhoi language through the arts, including film, dance, and performance arts.
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📆 Wednesday, September 16 ⁠
🕒 12pm Pacific / 3pm Eastern / 9pm South Africa
💻 Free and online⁠
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Register at: https://bit.ly/stories-from-the-heart

"Stories from the Heart: Community Language Projects from Ready to Revitalize" is a monthly series of informal talks by grassroots language champions worldwide. Each month, alumni of ELP's Ready to Revitalize program share about the programs they’ve developed to strengthen their languages. ⁠
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Come learn from the lived experience of people revitalizing their languages, be inspired by their work, and build connections with others around the world! ⁠
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We hope you will join us as we listen to these language champions tell their stories from the heart about their work in their communities.

Ever wonder who’s behind the scenes at ELP? Meet the ELP team, past and present!

"It's Not OK to Let a Language Die" is now available in Hausa, Simplified Chinese, and Greek. We offer our heartfelt thanks to the volunteer translators who shared their knowledge and work:

An fassara zuwa harshen Hausa daga Aliyu Yusuf da Abubakar Umar Sadiq da kuma Amina Otaki. https://endangeredlanguages.com/story/martani-ga-muqalar-wani-lokaci-bashi-da-aibu-bar-yare-ya-mutu

由Shang Shi和Lemin Gao翻译成简体中文。 https://endangeredlanguages.com/zh-hans/story/duiyoushirangyimenyuyanxiaowangyeweichangbukedehuiying

Μεταφρασμένο στα Ελληνικά απο την Ελένη Κοσμήδου/Κοσμίδου και τον Πάρη Ζέικο. https://endangeredlanguages.com/story/mia-apantisi-sto-kapoies-fores-einai-entaxei-na-afineis-mia-glossa-na-pethanei

[Hausa: Aliyu Yusuf, Abubakar Umar Sadiq, and Amina Otaki
Simplified Chinese: Shang Shi and Lemin Gao
Greek: Eleni Kosmidou and Paris Zeikos]

This article is ELP's response to the New Yorker's review of the book How to Kill a Language, titled "Sometimes It's OK to Let a Language Die". In ELP's response, we identify the colonial underpinnings of arguments against language revitalization, spotlight the harms these narratives cause, and offer other ways of seeing from Indigenous perspectives.

Join ELP and the Language Documentation Training Center for 2026's FREE 9-week online learning series in language documentation! Register at: https://bit.ly/2026langdoc
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Language documentation, or making good records of your language, can be an important part of strengthening your language. 🎤 You'll learn the basics of how to record good-quality audio and video, ways to look deeper at your language's sounds and grammar, and tips for working with language materials - and you'll get to connect with other people around the world doing this work. ⁠
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No previous experience or training is needed - we'll start from the beginning! We look forward to learning with you this year. ⁠
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‼️Job alert in language and well-being!

The University of Massachusetts Amherst Department of Anthropology is hiring an Assistant Professor in Language and Wellbeing:

"The Department is seeking a linguistic/cultural anthropologist with a strong record of research that addresses how language plays an integral role in shaping wellbeing. We understand wellbeing to include physical and mental health as well as other aspects of human flourishing, especially in relation to social, environmental, economic, and/or political systems."

Learn more at:

Assistant Professor - Department of Anthropology - Amherst, Massachusetts, United States Title: Assistant Professor - Department of Anthropology Executive Area: Academic Affairs College/School/MBU: Social & Behavioral Sciences Department: Anthropology Work Location: Amherst Schedule: Full-time Work Arrangement: Hybrid Job Summary The Department of Anthropology at the University of M...

❗️ Opportunity alert: Applications are now open for the Endangered Language Fund-UNESCO Traineeship Program!

Learn more and apply by October 15: https://www.endangeredlanguagefund.org/elf-unesco-traineeship

This traineeship offers a unique opportunity for Indigenous/Aboriginal individuals to gain hands-on experience and contribute to UNESCO's mission in education and language preservation.

The successful recipient(s) will receive financial support from ELF in the form of US$5,000 to assist with costs related to participating in the traineeship.

Applicants should hold a bachelor's degree in Education, Linguistics, Indigenous Studies, or related disciplines, and be proficient in English (and, ideally, French).

ELF-UNESCO Traineeship — The Endangered Language Fund Learn more about the Endangered Language Fund's first sponsored UNESCO trainee (in partnership with the UNESCO Chair on  Rights Education Among Indigenous and Non-Dominant Language Communities), Sarojini Birua from the Ho community in India (pictured with Noro Andriamiseza Ingarao , Programme Sp...

Have you ever heard harmful things about your language, your language community, or language revitalization in general?

We invite you to share your experiences, if you would like to: http://surveyhero.com/c/narratives

ELP is developing a resource to help address harmful narratives about language revitalization. In this resource, we will unpack common dominant myths and narratives about Indigenous languages and language revitalization. We will offer ways to respond to and reframe these narratives.

We want this resource to be as useful as possible to people around the world. We recognize that we are a small team, and we probably haven’t heard all the narratives and myths that are out there. As we develop this resource, we would like to hear from you, if you would like to share your experiences.

We invite the ELP community, gently and with humility, to share any harmful narratives or statements you have heard about your language, your language community, or language revitalization (in your context or in general).

We recognize that this can be very painful to remember and talk about. The most important thing is your well-being. If you do not want to share anything, that’s okay. We will keep this form open for the rest of 2026. You can always return to this later, or not at all.

If you have any questions or concerns, we welcome you to write to us. You can send us a DM or write to [email protected].