NSF Dynamic Language Infrastructure - NEH Documenting Endangered Languages (DLI-DEL)
National Science Foundation
Who can apply
US-based academic institutions. Non-profit research organizations. Qualified researchers (typically requires US citizenship or permanent residency)
About this opportunity
This funding partnership between the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) supports projects to develop and advance knowledge concerning dynamic language infrastructure in the context of endangered human languages — languages that are both understudied and at risk of falling out of use. Made urgent by the imminent loss of roughly half of the approximately 7,000 currently used languages, this effort aims to exploit advances in human-language technology to build computational infrastructure for endangered language research. The program supports projects that contribute to data management and archiving, and to the development of the next generation of researchers. Funding can support fieldwork and other activities relevant to the digital recordi...