Global Survey of Language Revitalization Efforts

A paper based on the results from the Global Survey of Language Revitalization Efforts has now been published. You may find it here as an open access paper, and also attached. The paper was published in 2019 during the International Year of Indigenous Languages. I want to acknowledge all of your contributions without which we could not have made the observations we have shared in the paper. We hope that the paper will be a meaningful contributions towards advancing language revitalization efforts worldwide. Thank you for sharing your experiences with us and the world.

Job: Assistant / Associate Professor, University of Texas at Austin

The Department of Religious Studies at The University of Texas at Austin invites applications for a position in Maya religion in the context of Mesoamerican history and cultures at the level of tenure-track Assistant Professor or early Associate Professor with tenure. We seek a scholar whose work contributes to the discipline of Religious Studies, with a focus on questions of indigeneity and the complex interactions of religious traditions from the period before European contact to the present. The position will begin in August 2020 and salary will be commensurate with rank and experience.

Job: Assistant, Associate Professor, Minority Languages and Dialects (Cluster Hire), University of Wisconsin-Madison

This position is a full-time, tenure-track faculty position at the Assistant Professor level, to start August 2020. Applications at the associate professor level may be considered in exceptional cases. The search is for a job candidate whose research focuses on linguistic, cognitive, developmental, sociolinguistic, and/or educational issues associated with the use of minority languages/dialects. In the US, "minority language" refers to languages other than English; "dialect" refers to distinctive variants of English spoken by communities defined by region, racial or ethnic identity, socioeconomic status, or other factors.

Call for Applications: Documentation of Language & Material Knowledge

The British Museum’s Endangered Material Knowledge Programme (EMKP) and SOAS’ Endangered Languages Documentation Programme (ELDP) are delighted to announce a joint call for grant applications. Funded by Arcadia – a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin – EMKP and ELDP jointly offer grants for collaborative projects that combine language and material knowledge documentation.

Native Voices Endowment Request for Proposals Now Available

The Native Voices Endowment (NVE) 2019 Request for Proposals is now available on the Endangered Language Fund website. The NVE program was created within ELF for the purpose of revitalizing and maintaining the Indigenous languages of the American Indian Nations whose ancestors encountered the 1803-1806 Lewis & Clark expedition. For details about eligibility, please see our website.

Marion Harry (1937–2019)

It is with great sadness that I report the passing of Mrs. Marion Harry of the Homalco First Nation. She was a fluent speaker of the Homalco language, a.k.a. Sliammon/Homalco/Klahoose dialect of the northernmost Coast Salish language. (The language has been referred to as Sliammon, Mainland (dialect) of Comox, or ʔayʔaǰuθəm.) She passed away on September 7, 2019, at the age of 82.

Reminder: Nominations for SSILA Archiving Award Due Oct. 1

This is a quick reminder that nominations for the SSILA Archiving Award are due on October 1, 2019.

This award highlights the importance of creating long-term archival materials that are accessible to all communities concerned, including heritage and language communities as well as scholarly communities. It is meant to encourage others in academia to value such work as more comparable to analytic research.

Please visit the award page for more details about the award and the nomination process. We look forward to receiving your nominations!

Read more about the SSILA Archiving Award here.