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Foundation for Endangered Languages

Interests of past and present FEL members

Aborginal languages
Aboriginal Australian languages (Nyungar)
Acipawa, Bangi and Gunganci
Acquisition, Algonquian languages
Adivasi community of Maharashtra 
Adult learners of Minority Languages. Gaelic
Advocacy for marginalized African languages
Af Boon, Kitumbatu, Ongamo, Gweno
African languages
Ainu
Albanian, Arberesh, Arvanitika, Italian, EU, Balkans, Italy
Algonquian family; Tai-Kadai family; Pali (ancient Indic)...
All endangered languages, and ways of saving them
Altai Languages (Northern and Southern)
Amazigh Berber
Amazonian languages
American Indian Language Renewal
Amis, Puyuma, Dungan Chinese
Ao Naga
Application of language revitalisation initiatives to music
Arabic/Mahri/Soqotri/Jibbali
Aramaic language, Middle East language policy, education
Archiving, language documentation and preservation
Armenian in Diaspora, Minoritiy languages in the Near East,
Aromanian
Asia Minor Greek, Cappadocian, Greek, Turkish, Armenian
ASL
Atayal, Native American Languages, Austronesian Languages
Athabaskan, Tanoan
Australian Aboriginal Languages
Australian Aboriginal languages, Intonation/phonetics
Australian indigenous languages, Celtic languages
Australian languages
Australian Languages, language maintenance and documentation
Australian languages, Papuan languages, Irish (Gaeilge)
Austroasiatic languages; Uto-Aztecan languages
Austronesian, Aboriginal languages, revitalization, training
Austronesian and Papuan
Austronesian (Taiwan, Atayal, Sedeq), Japanese dialects
AYMARA, MOSETEN, LECO, URU, CHIMANE
Ba'langin, Ba'kambai, Ba'kati, Ba'nyap
Babanki
Bagpiping cultures
Bakwamgala
Bakweri
Balanta languges 
Banjara/Lambadi
Banyaduq, BeAhe, Balangin
Bateq
Belarusian 
Berber 
Bilingualism, multilingualism in Japan, Miyakoan language
Blackfoot, Algonquian, BC languages
Bolivian languages, language revitalization, North-Frisian
Bong'om Endangered Language
Bornean languages, lexicography, oral history
Borneo studies, traditional education, orthography
Brahui language
Breton; Dogon variant: Poiyo (Mali)
British Sign Language
Broadening awareness of language loss, impact thereof
Burji, Borana, Nyala, Segeju, Sagala, Bajuni, Sanye, Pokomo,
BURUSHASKI
Catalan Occitan
Celtic contact and language shift
Celtic Langs Breton & Welsh
Celtic languages
Celtic languages, Bantu languages
Celtic languages, esp. Manx
Chakfem-Mushere, Mwaghavul, Kofyar, Goemai, Tehl, Mupun...
Chechen, cricassian, aramaic, ancient greek
Chitimacha, Inupiaq, Navajo, Ekegusii, Mixtec
Chorti
Chuvash
Citumbuka, Chindali, Chingoni
Cognitive Linguistics / Formosan Languages
Cognitive psychology; Ngobere
Comanche Language
Computer assisted language learning
Cree
Cree; Algonquian
Creole and Documentation Endangered Language in Indonesia
Cultural anthropology / English, German, French, Bengali, Chin
Cultural linguistcis; Linguistic Anthropology; Comparative Grammar
Defaka and Nkoroo
Defaka (Nigeria) 
Dholuo and Swahili
Documentation and description of South Kurdish dialects
Documentation and revitalization of Urhobo, Uvwie and Erohwa
Documentation/description/promotion of Irish Gaelic
Documentation of languages that are endangered
Documentation of some names in Ga language
DOCUMENTATION OF TIGANIA
Documentation/Oko-eni-osayen, Ayu
Documentation,recording and production of materials for the study of EPIE language
Documentation & Revitalization
Documentation & Revitalization of Urhobo, Isoko, Erohwa
Documenting and revitalizing our Kinyindu language
Documenting an endagered language in Ethiopia
Documenting endangered languages
Documenting endangered languages of iran / sorkhi dialect
Documenting Tanjavur Marathi, spoken in India
Documenting Waima/Roro
Domaaki, Brushaski, shina
Doukhobor Russian (Canada, Georgia), Sorbian (Germany)
Dutch, French, Nepali, Norwegian, Wambule, Jero
Eastern wixarika (huichol)
Ecolinguistics
Edo language 
Edo (Nigeria)
Efik and Bini Languages
Eghereka, Unenurhie, Urhobo
ELD, Vanuatu, Pacific; Amazon
EL MOLO, SENGWER AND OGIEK
El Molo - The Gurapau
Endangered creole languages of South Asia and East Asia
Endangered dialects of Tamil language
Endangered Indigenous L1 Punjabi Language Speaker
Endangered Language Documentation
Endangered language Rendille
Endangered Languages and African Cultre Protection
Endangered Languages, Bilingual Education, Language Planning
Endangered Languages documentation
Endangered Languages, Folklores.
Endangered languages, indigenous cultures
Endangered languages, language shift, change and death, lang
Endangered Languages, Linguistic Rights, Language, Homogeniz
Endangered languages, sociolinguistics, Greek, Italian
Endangered languages, theoretical linguistics
Endangered leti language, center of CAMEROUN
Endangered local languages
English
English, Chinese
English-French-Arabic-Spanish
English,internet
English language 
English linguistics, language death, minority languages
English, Saraiki Urdu Punjabi Chinese French Arabic
English, Tatar, Russian
English, Tok Pisin, Yui
English, Urdu, Chinese
English, welsh
ERIC Clearinghouse on Education and Small Schools
Ethnolinguistics
Ethnozoology, ethnobotany, Imenti dialect-variety of Kimiiru
FIELD LINGUISTICS, KINNAURI LANGUAGES
Film and Video projects about language
Filmmaking, Storytelling and Photography/ Nepali and Hindi
Folktales of Torwali 
French, Arabic, Nepali; sociolinguistics
French-based creoles
French, Romance, Celtic (Welsh,Breton), Algonquian (Ojibwe)
Fur; Indigenous Languages of the Americas
Gaelic
Galician, Spanish, Language Contact
Galo (Tibeto-Burman) language development and revitalization
Garifuna
Garifuna, Indonesian, language variation and change
Gawri (Kalami)
Gayo Language
Germanic, PNG, isles & chains, Russian, American, music/song
German; Tetum
Gilaki Language
Graduallu
Gurani-Hawrami, Kurdish
Hadoti & Dhundari (spoken in Rajasthan)
Haida
Hano, Paamese
Hawaiian, Uchināguchi
Heritage language maintenance in adolescents
Hlubi
Hobongan, Austronesian, cognitive semantics, pragmatics,...
Ibani, Ibo
Ibibio
Ibibio, Efik, Anaang, Ekid
Icelandic, Swedish
Idu Mishmi and languages of Arunachal Pradesh
Igbo Language 
Indigenous Australian Languages
Indigenous language immersion programs
Indigenous language revitalization - Canada (Mi'gmaq)
Indigenous Language revival and Information Technology
Indigenous languages
Indigenous languages Australia
Indigenous languages description and documentation
Indigenous languages in Peru, specially varieties of quechua
Indigenous languages of Siberia, Akose language of Cameroon
Indigenous languages of the United States
indigenous media, songwriting, sowal no 'amis, taiwan
Indigenous organisation
Indigenous peoples/languages, Nepal, Asia, Peacebuilding
Indigneous language immersion
Indonesian, Javanese, Malay
Indonesian, Javanese, Malay, Lampung, Chinese
Indonesian languages
Indonesian languages esp. Sulawesi
Informatic tools for minority languages
Internet, technology, Welsh
Inuit language
Inuit languages
Inuktitut
Iranian Languages, Bakhtiari dialects, Raji dialects
Iranian languages, Gilaki language and its varieties
Iranian, Pamirian
Irish
Irish and Scottish Gaelic
Irish Language, Chibcha languages
Irish, Language Revitalization, Language in the Community
Irish, technology, web innovation
Iroquoian and Muskogean languages, Irish Gaelic, Hausa
Iroquoian languages; place names; landscape; ethnophysiograp
Irri, Isoko
Isan (Thai Lao)
Ishkashimi (Rini) language, Tajikistan
Itelmen language - heritage language
Japan(ese)
Japanese Ainu
Javanese, Kawi
Jejueo, Korean
Journalist
Juruna (Yudja), Kaiabi; brazilian indigenous languages
Kabiyè, Ewé, kotokoli, moba, mina, ifè, adélé, anyiga
Kalasha
Kaqchikel
Kaqchikel Maya
Kasem, Gurune
Kashmiri, Domaaki
Kelabit & Kenyah languages (from Borneo)
Ket, Yugh, Khakas, Shor, Tuvan, Altai, Selkup, Enets, Komi
Khek Bangka, Language Documentation Training Center - Hawaii
Khinalug, Budukh, Kryz languages
Khoe-San
Khowar Language
KISII
Kitharaka Language in Kenya which is endangered
Klamath-Modoc, Lakota, Northern Paiute, Owens Valley Paiute
Knowledge Systems; Loquo/Lokono Arawak; Game-/Song-texts, 
Kungarakan and Gurindji
Kurmali, or Kulmali or Kudmali
Ladino (endangered language)
Lakota
Lakota/Dakota languages
Lalo
Langs. of Britain & Taiwan, native sp. training
Language and identity, language maintenance and education
Language archives, documentation tools, languages of Vanuatu
Language contact, language maintenance, language and power
Language contact, North Eastern India; Nagamese, Bishnupriya
Language death, Azeri, spoken in Tabriz
Language death, East Sutherland Gaelic, language maintenance
Language documentation, Amazonia, South America
Language documentation and description
language documentation and preservation
Language documentation, Austronesian languages
Language documentation, Corpus linguistics
Language documentation, description and revitalization
Language documentation, historical linguistics, Austronesian
LANGUAGE DOCUMENTATION/IBIBIO
Language documentation, language revitalization, Zapotec
Language Documentation / Minderico (Portugal)
Language documentation of Kohistani of Kumrat
Language documentation, orthography, Azerbaijan
Language Documentation, Translation, German
Language endangerment and revitalization
Language of minority groups in Borneo
Language Policy and Legislation
Language policy and planning in multi-ethnic nations
Language policy, Jewish languages, Navajo, Maori
Language Policy, Language Planning / Greek, Cypriot Arabic
Language policy on preserving and promoting oirat language. 
Language Reclamation, Kaurna, Australian Indigenous Languages
Language Research
Language revitalisation and policy
Language revitalization
Language revitalization, language learning
Language revival, creoles, Australian languages 
Languages and their evolution/extinction
Language shift
Language shift and Linguistic Change; Siraiki Language
Language Shift/Maintenance. Language Death
Languages, Linguistics, Music
Languages of India, Language Planning
Languages of Papua New Guinea / Nalik
Languages of South America
Languages of the Chaco
Language teaching / Ryukyuan family, Kavalan, Amis, Bunun
Language Variation and Change / Gran Chaco Languages
Language vitality and (re)vitalization
Langues autochtones / Développement humain durable
Latin American Indigenous Languages
Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Sanskrit
Laz
Laz language
Laz language revitalisation
LAZ (South Caucasion language under danger)
Lazuri
Lexicography and TB languages
Lexicography / Bantu
Lexicography/Kiowa
Lexicography, Language Advocacy and Networking
Lexicography, Torwali-Urdu_English Dictionary 
Lhomi; an endangered language of Nepal
Limbu
Linguistic diversity, language ecology
Linguistic Geography
Linguistic Human Rights, Variation in Rajbanshi, Education
Linguistic mapping, language revitalization, cybercartograph
Linguistics, altaistics, mongolian, kalmyk
Linguistics, palaegraphy, mythology, ethnography, archaelogy
Linguistics; Sociolinguistics. 
Linguistic typology, cyberinfrastructure
Livonian
Livonian language
Lombard language ISO 639-3 lmo
Louisiana Creole
Lower Koyukon
Lugisu/Luganda
Luiseno and Cahuilla (American Indian) languages
Lusoga Lulamoogi and Lusoga Lutenga
Machine Translation for lower-resourced languages
Mahali, Koda
Maintain/promote use of Yura Ngawarla (Australian language)
Manambu
Manjaku of Guinea-Bissau and diaspora (Gambia, Senegal, etc)
Manx Gaelic 
Mao
Maori
Maori languages
Mapudungun/Tsesungun, Quechua, Kamsá, Yanesha', Kawesqar
Maya, Lacandon
Maya Yucatec/Maya T'aan
Melayu Papua, Wano, and languages in Papua
Mexican indigenous languages (oaxaca and chiapas states)
Mexico, Nahuatl, Linguistic Anthropology
Milang, Adi
Mingrelian/Laz
Minority and regional languages in Italy and Malaysia
Minority lang, Contact linguistics, Endangered lang,
Minority languages, aslian languages, malay language
Minority languages of China and S E Asia
Minor languages of Russia
Minyag, Tibetan, Chinese, English,
Miriek
Miriwoong, Kriol
Mmuock
Mohawk, Iroquoian
Mongolian language
Mongolian, manchu
Monkha
Monkhmer
Mon-Khmer languages
Morphology, typology, Slavonic languages, Dagestanian langs
Morphology, word classes/Mlomp
MUNDA LANGUAGES
Nalik
NAMBYA
Naskapi Band Language ( Quebec )
Native American languages
Native American languages, revitalization
Native Languages
Navajo, Athabaskan, Dene
Nawatl, Garifuna, Bantu, Tol
Nda'Nda'
Ndebele, Nambya, Tonga
Neapolitan or Southern Italian/North Oscan dialect: Hernican
Nepal Bhasa (defintely endangered language of Nepal)
Ngabere Language
Nocte language
Non Pama-Nyungan languages of Australia esp. West Kimberley,
North American
Nyangumarta
Oceania/Melanesia (Austronesian languages)
ODIYA /OD
Oirat, mongolian languages
Ojibwe; Cree; Algonquian languages
Ojibwe, odawa, chippewa, algonquin, saulteaux
Okinawan literature
Okinoerabu language in Ryukyuan, Japan
OLUTACHONI
Omotik, munyoyaya, Nyang'ori
Opuuo, Koman Languages
Oshojo, Badeshi & Torwali
Ossetian
Pahari, Domaaki
Pahari language (ethnography, lang docum & description)
Palu'e, Bahasa Indonesia
Palu'e (Sara Lu'a), related languages on Flores
Pamir languages and Iranian languages
Pampanga and Mandaya
Papuan & Austronesian languages of eastern Indonesia
Papua New Guinea, New Caledonia
Papuan languages, Language&Culture, Vernacular Education
Papuan languages, South Atlantic languages, Tashelhit
Pashtu, Shina, Domaaki, Brushaski, Balti
Peligro/Tojol-ab'al
Penan
Pentlatch and Island Comox
Penutian languages of Oregon, Ainu
Phonology, Language Documentation
Pinghua, an endangered minority Sinitic language of China
PLATEAU STATE LANGUAGES
Preserving local Kenyan languages
Preserving Sanskrit, Kashmiri, Dogri, Kangri
Project Management in Language Documentation
Promoting Iluen, Ekirom and Akunnu, endangered languages
Promotion and protection of endangered Adi language
Promotion, documentation & Revival of Urhobo (ISO 639-3: u)
Promotion of Quechua, linguistics, Ethnography, Cultural Studies
pronunciation change, Maori, L2 motivation, ideology
Prosody- Australian, Oceanic, Papuan languages
PROTECTING THE BAFANJI, BAFUT, BAKOSSI AND BAKWERI LANGUANGE
Psycholinguistics, the Belarusian language
Public policy issues
Punjabi
PUNJABI/HINDI/ENGLISH
PUNJABI, SARAIKI, URDU.
Q'anjob'al
Quechua
Quechua language, linguistic fieldwork and language document
Quechua (quz, quh)
Quichua
Rajasthani Languages (Shekhawati, Marwari)
Raji language, one of the central languages of Iran
Rapa Nui
Reading books, English novels/ English, Urdu, Punjabi
Relationship B/W and Biological Diversity
Relli Language and Language Education
Research a documentation de shuar chicham
Researching in endangered languages of Tibeto-Burman origin.
Reverse Language Shift with regards to Irish
Reversing Language Shift/Scottish Gaelic, Cherokee, Ixil
Revitalizing endangered languages /fulfulde
Revitilisation of languages
Revival Linguistics, Lg Contact, Lexicon, Aboriginal, Hebrew
Rgyalrong Tibetan
Rohingya Jubaan, English
Russian, Tajik, English, Kyrgyz, Turkish
Ryukyuan
Ryukyuan languages
Ryukyuan, Yaeyaman, Semantics, Pragmatics
Ryukyuan (Yaeyama / Okinawan ), Inari Sami, Skolt Sami
Samoyed languages. Endangered languages in Northern Eurasia
SANSKRIT(RIG VEDA AND ATHARVAVEDA)
Sanye, Suba, Yaaku, Burji, Nubi,Boni, Dahalo,Daasanach, Digo
Sapara, Kichwa
Saraiki Language, Saraiki Folktales, 
Saraiki, Pakistani languages, Australian languages, music
Sarawak minority languages
Satawalese, Ulithian, Woleaian, Yapese
Scottish Gaelic
Scottish Gaelic, Bilingualism & Cognition, Bilingual Educati
Scottish Gaelic, Cornish, sociology of lang, demolinguistics
Scottish Gaelic, Low German, interlingual subtitling.
Second language acquisition 
Semantics, typology, languagedocumentation in Gur languages 
Semnani Dialect / Iranian Languages
SENGWER
Sheko
Shima-guchi
Shina
Shua and Kua language documentation, Shua & Kua Oral Bible t
Shughni language
Siberian indigenous minorities, Uralic, Turkic
Sign languages
Sinabu, Cocos, Kedayan, Tidong, Iranun,
Siraiki
Slovonic, Finnic Uralic languages (especially livonian )
Social Functions of Languages; Linguistic Inequality
Sociolinguistics
Sociolinguistics and Morphology / The Ninzo Language
Socio-linguistics. Discourse/text analysis
Sociolinguistics, Pakistani languages/Siraiki
Sociolinguistics, political discourse
Sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, bilingualism
Sociolinguistics, Punjabi,Urdu,English 
Sociolinguistics, Speech Sciences, Field Linguistics
Software Localization
Sorbian, Gaelic
Sorbian, North Frisian
South American Indian languages
South American languages, Evidentiality, Revitalization
South Asian languages and writing systems
Southern Binukidnon
South Munda Language ,Morphology
South Pacific, Oceanic
South Western Ethiopian languages,
Spanish, Emberá bed'ea, Wounaan meu
Spanish, Hawaiian, Rapa Nui, Quechua, Mayan languages
Spanish, Maori, Mapuzungun
Speaker of the Azamgarh dialect of the Awadhi language. 
Speech analytics 
Spoken & Signed languages of Papua New Guinea
Sraiki, Urdu, English
Suba language of Kenya
SUBA , LUO, OGIEK, ELMOLO, SENGWER, LIVONIAN, TUMBATU
Suba or Abasuba
Sumerian, ancient egyptian, achuar, native american language
Tai languages, Tibeto-Burman languages, Northeast India,
Tairuma
Tamazight (Berber)
Tangale, Utonkon
T-B LANGUAGES
TB-Languages
Technology, language maintenance process and tools
Thai, Lao, Bru, Kuay
The Americas: South America in particular
Tibetan
Tibetan, Chinese, Lavrung (mother tongue)
Tibeto-Burman(AIMOL, KOM, KOIRENG, KHARAM, CHIRU, PURUM)
Tibeto-Burman languages
Tibeto-Burman languages, North-East India
Tibeto-Burman, languages of Bhutan and NE India, Kurtöp
Tibeto-Burman Languages of Manipur
Tibeto-Burman languages of North East India
Tiv
Tiwa (Southern Tiwa)
Tlingit, Cree, Kala, Na'vi, Kryptonian
Tojol-ab'al Mayan
Tojolabal
Tongchangya Language, Culture and Literature, Buddhism
Torwali, education, language description, Dardic languages
Torwali language, Ushojo language,
Torwali, old poetry
Totonac; Mexican Indigenous Languages
Tourism to support revitalization of endangered languages
Tradition and culture/urhobo
Translation-safeguarding endangered languages
Tsafiki
Tunica
Tunica and Biloxi
Tunica, Blackfeet, Native American (North America)
Tupari, Mayan, psycholinguistics
Tuvan, Gagauz, corpus linguistics, textlinguistics
Uchinaaguchi reclamation in Okinawan martial arts
Uchinaaguchi/theater and language pedagogy/healing studies
Udmurt language
Uighur and Manchu language
Uighur Language, Turkish, English, Chinese
Uighur,turk and Manchu languages
Uighur/Uyghur
Uneme (Nigeria),
Ungarinyin, Nyikina
Urdu, English, Rangri
Urhobo, Erowha, Okpe, Uvwie
Urhobo, Evwreni, Isoko, Uvwherun, Itsekiri and Udu. 
Urhobo language
UVWIE, URHOBO, ISOKO, EROWHA AND OKPE LANGUAGES
U'wa
Venetian
Vernacular education, Tok Pisin, Duna (Papua New Guinea)
Wajarri, Badimaya, Nhanda, Malgana, Yinggarda, Warriyangga, 
Wakhi, Pamiri languages
Wakshan Languages, Indigenous Languages of the Americas
Wanka
Wauja
Welsh; Celtic languages; speech technology
Welsh language
Welsh, nasa yuwe, wayuunaiki, irish, minority language media
West African Languages
Western Iranian
Wiradjuri
Wolaita Language of Ethiopia
Wooi, Papuan Malay
Yiddish, Hawai'ian, Sami, Greenlandic 
Yiddish language
Yoruba Language and Literature 
Yugur
Zaar (Sayawa)
Zaiwa