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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
Thank you for visiting our volunteer
page. We are happy to see that you are
interested in helping us document
endangered languages. At the current
time, we are not looking for any
volunteers to go on expeditions with us,
although we appreciate your interest in
that aspect of our work. Our fieldwork
schedule is already set for 2012 - 2013,
and we will post any related
opportunities on our social media if we
are looking for help.
Most of activities that we need help
with involve advancing our online
language database and doing related
online research tasks. Unfortunately,
although we had hoped that we could
accept more volunteer researchers and we
had previously announced that we would
accept more people in August 2012, we
are unable to welcome any more
volunteers until 2013 for the following
reasons:
1) We currently have a group of over
dedicated 50 online volunteers already
working with us, and we have one person
on staff to coordinate and supervise
their activities. This is because we
have a very small team and limited
operations budget. The current
volunteers are in the middle of doing
their online research tasks and we are
choosing not to transfer their tasks to
a new group of people at this time
because we would like the same group of
people to continue working on the
database until the end of the year.
2) Our language database is going
through many revisions and additions and
we have a long list of technical tasks
to manage with regards to the
development of the database. Our
resources are spread rather thin at the
moment and we need to focus on improving
the current version of the database
before bringing in new people to work on
it. We appreciate your understanding in
this matter.
But do not fret, there are other ways to
help! You can join our
Living Tongues Facebook Page and
help us raise awareness about endangered
languages online, by sharing our daily
news and inviting others to join our
page and learn about the global
phenomenon of language extinction. Also,
you can make a donation via our
Adopt-a-language program, below. This
would help our sustain our documentation
projects around the world.
By raising more funds, we hope to expand
our programs in the future so that we
can have more resources that will enable
us to collaborate with more people. If
you know of any sponsors who would be
interested in supporting our work, or
donors who are looking for this kind of
cause to donate to, please do not
hesitate to contact us via our "Email
Living Tongues" button on the left-hand
side bar, with "Sponsor for Living
Tongues" in the subject line of your
email.
Thank you again for your interest in
becoming a volunteer. We appreciate your
support and and enthusiasm, and we look
forward to being in contact with you at
a later date.
The Living Tongues team
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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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