Opportunity Information: Apply for 20230913 FN
The Dynamic Language Infrastructure - Documenting Endangered Languages (DLI-DEL) Fellowships program is a competitive federal grant opportunity run by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), specifically through its Division of Research Programs, in partnership with the National Science Foundation (NSF). The fellowship is aimed at supporting individual scholars who are working on the documentation and analysis of one or more endangered languages, with an emphasis on producing high-quality scholarly resources that preserve linguistic knowledge and make it usable for research, teaching, and long-term stewardship.
At its core, the program funds dedicated time for the kinds of work that endangered-language projects require but are often difficult to support through normal teaching loads or shorter-term research budgets. This includes fieldwork to record language use (such as audio and video documentation of speakers in natural and elicited contexts), as well as the follow-on tasks that turn recordings into lasting research assets. The fellowship explicitly supports digital archiving, along with transcription and annotation, so that materials are not only collected but also organized, described, and prepared in ways that other researchers and communities can meaningfully access and interpret. It also supports linguistic and ethnographic analysis of the documented materials, recognizing that language documentation often overlaps with cultural knowledge, discourse practices, oral traditions, and social context.
The anticipated outputs are framed broadly to accommodate different scholarly approaches and community needs. Expected products can include lexicons and dictionaries, descriptive grammars, curated databases or corpora, peer-reviewed journal articles, monographs, and other print or digital research publications. In practice, this means the program is suitable both for scholars building foundational documentary resources (like annotated corpora and archived collections) and for those moving from documentation into analysis and publication, as long as the work clearly advances knowledge about endangered languages and results in tangible, shareable research products.
Administratively, this is a discretionary grant program (FundingOpportunityNumber 20230913 FN) under the humanities activity category (CFDA 45.160). Eligibility is limited to individuals rather than institutions, which signals that the fellowship is designed to directly support a scholar's research time and project execution. The maximum award amount listed is $60,000, and NEH anticipated making about 5 awards for this cycle. The opportunity record lists a creation date of July 5, 2023, with an original application closing date of September 13, 2023.Apply for 20230913 FN
- The National Endowment for the Humanities in the humanities (see cultural affairs in cfda) sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Dynamic Language Infrastructure – Documenting Endangered Languages Fellowships" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 45.160.
- This funding opportunity was created on Jul 05, 2023.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Sep 13, 2023. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $60,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 5 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Individuals.
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