The National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) announced today $3.7 million in awards as a part of a joint Documenting Endangered Languages (DEL) program. This year, NSF and NEH have partnered in funding 27 institutional grants, fellowships, doctoral dissertation research improvement awards, and training and workshop projects. The 2013 DEL awards support digital documentation of over 38 endangered languages spread across 19 language families spoken in south, central and northern Asia, Africa, Papua New Guinea and the Americas. Read more...