Endangered Language Fund

05/07/2026

Thank you to everyone who joined us for Language Rights, Health and Resilience: Global Partnerships Advancing Indigenous Well-Being and helped make the conversation so meaningful. We were honored to see such a wonderful turnout and to share space with so many passionate advocates, scholars, community leaders, and supporters of Indigenous languages.

As the Endangered Language Fund celebrates 30 years of supporting language revitalization efforts around the world, gatherings like this remind us why this work matters so deeply. Your support, engagement, and continued commitment help keep endangered languages alive for future generations. 💚

A huge thank you to our collaborators and everyone who stopped by, listened, connected, and supported ELF during this special event.

If you’d like to continue supporting our mission, you can donate here: https://donate.forgood.org/donation/06-1459207

Here’s to 30 years of advocacy, partnership, and language revitalization, we are looking forward to the work still ahead. 📚

04/16/2026

We’re proud to be part of two official UNPFII 2026 side events this April ✨
📍 April 21 — CUNY Graduate Center
📍 April 24 — UN Headquarters
for Language Rights, Health and Resilience: Global Partnerships Advancing Indigenous Well-Being.
As we celebrate 30 years of the Endangered Language Fund, we’re honored to come together to explore how language revitalization supports cultural continuity, identity, and community health, and how we can continue building partnerships that uplift this work worldwide 🌍

04/08/2026

We’re proud to be part of two official UNPFII 2026 side events this April ✨

📍 April 21 — CUNY Graduate Center
📍 April 24 — UN Headquarters

for Language Rights, Health and Resilience: Global Partnerships Advancing Indigenous Well-Being.

As we celebrate 30 years of the Endangered Language Fund, we’re honored to come together to explore how language revitalization supports cultural continuity, identity, and community health, and how we can continue building partnerships that uplift this work worldwide 🌍

01/14/2026

See information below!

Join us to celebrate the launch of the Unesco Chair Rights Education among Indigenous and Non-Dominant Language Communities!

Presented by UNESCO Co-Chairs Dr. Candace Kaleimamoowahinekapu Galla, Dr. Shannon Bischoff, and Prof. Mary Encabo-Bischoff, as well as invited guest speakers.

📆 February 21, International Mother Language Day
🕔 5:00 pm Pacific (Vancouver) time
💻 On Zoom: http://bit.ly/IMLD2026

Live interpretation into French will be provided by Eco Interpreters (https://ecointerpreters.org/).

01/14/2026

A few snapshots from an inspiring few days at the 2026 LSA Conference in New Orleans.

We’re deeply thankful to everyone who took time to connect with us, ask thoughtful questions, and support our work through donations.

And a big thank you to the Linguistic Society of America for hosting such a vibrant, welcoming space for revitalization and care for languages worldwide.

01/08/2026

The Language Legacies grant program supports documentation and revitalization efforts throughout the world. It is open to community members and researchers from any country (with the exception of those who are eligible for our Native Voices Endowment (NVE) grants). An academic degree is not required, but the application must provide evidence that the applicant can achieve the stated goals. Grants are for one year and average around $2,000 (US).

Visit our website for more information!

12/31/2025

Happy New Year. May 2026 be good to you all. A new year, a milestone ahead, and so much gratitude. 🌍 Thank you for supporting endangered language communities as we head into ELF’s 30th year.

12/09/2025

ELF is proud to provide student scholarships, enabling everyone to attend the CoLang Institute, a biennial gathering where participants learn about language documentation, descriptive linguistics, and language revitalization.

We have also provided administrative support to the CoLang Web Committee, which maintains a permanent archive and website for the institute. While our administrative partnership has come to an end, we are reaching out to ask for your help in donating to the Web Committee today, so that attendees, language activists, and community members can continue to access CoLang's valuable digital resources.

Give today: https://chuffed.org/project/157333-support-the-colang-web-committees-operational-costs

12/02/2025

Language lives in community. In conversations, in stories, in the bonds we build.

Your Giving Tuesday gift helps revitalize, protect, and uplift Native languages alongside the communities who speak them.

Please show your support for Native voices on this Giving Tuesday. Visit the link in our bio for more information.

11/24/2025

Eric Silberberg and his collaborator, Juan Xítjōahnko Cruz recently focused on a language revitalization program in Los Reyes Metzontla, Puebla, Mexico.

Historically, the community spoke Ngiva, which is currently classified as a highly endangered language. The goal was to create a children’s book to teach basic Ngiva to elementary school students. This book uses the community’s internationally recognized

tradition of artisanal pottery as a medium to document its specialized vocabulary and to establish an accessible

pedagogical resource for language instruction. Through a Language Legacy Grant from the Endangered Language Fund, Eric and Xítjōahnko created an elementary school book featuring pictures and translations that capture the vibrant landscape and descriptions of community members engaged in their traditional pottery creation. Xítjōahnko is now in the process of distributing these books to the elementary school and town library in Metzontla.

Through innovative grants, internships, and funding support, ELF helps scaffold native communities to keep their native voices and cultures vibrant. Please continue to support our work by donating to the Endangered Language Fund. Link is in our profile.

All photos to be credited to the photographer, Xitjoahnko Cruz.