Documenting Endangered Languages (DEL)
This ongoing funding partnership between NEH and the National Science Foundation supports projects to gather and organize knowledge about endangered human languages. Made urgent by the imminent death of an estimated half of the 6,000–7,000 currently spoken languages, this effort exploits advances in information technology to achieve its goals. DEL grants support fieldwork and other activities relevant to recording, documenting, and archiving endangered languages, including the preparation of lexicons, grammars, text samples, and databases. Grants in this program are also made by the Division of Research Programs.
Guidelines URL: www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/del.html

PA-51495, Museum of the Cherokee Indian:
Smithsonian Cherokee Language Materials and Languages Revitalization.
A 2005 grant to the Museum of the Cherokee Indian supported the digitization of Cherokee language materials in the National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution, as well as the work of Cherokee elders to translate and assess these materials.
Project URL: www.cherokeemuseum.org/