First “Documenting Endangered Languages” grants</tile> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="description" content="First “Documenting Endangered Languages” grants"> <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="First,“Documenting,Endangered,Languages”,grants"> </head> <body> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="10" height="39"> </td> <td width="99%" height="39"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="16%"><a href="http://inttranews.inttra.net"><img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/images/inttranews_grey_2.jpg" width="192" height="37" border="0"></a></td> <td width="50%" valign="middle"> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><font color="#CCCCCC" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">KNOW.<br> HOW.</font></b></font> </p> </td> <td width="34%" align="right" valign="top"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#666666">10-05-2005</font></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <b>First “Documenting Endangered Languages” grants</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/img_news/img_f2GNwNKyDFEllLjH2VnG_0.jpg" align="left" vspace="5" hspace="5" ><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">California, USA (Monterey County Herald): 39 grants and fellowships have already been made in the new federal program for threatened languages, the “Documenting Endangered Languages partnership” for which the NEH and the National Science Foundation agencies have awarded $4.4 million. The agencies cited experts saying that more than 3,000 of the 6,000 to 7,000 languages now in use are approaching extinction. <br>One grant of $17,767 is for student linguist Rebecca Cover to record and analyze Badiaranke, an unwritten tongue spoken by an estimated 12,000 people where three countries meet, Senegal, Guinea and Guinea-Bissau. <br> <br>For more information, please visit: <br><a href="http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/news/11601197.htm " target="blank">www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/news/11601197.htm </a> <br></font></td> </tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="<http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show