Closed · 18-580 · CFDA 47.050;47.070;47.075 · Discretionary

Documenting Endangered Languages

Federal grant opportunity posted by U.S. National Science Foundation, cataloged on Grants.gov.

Varies
Award range
Closed
Status
-
Close date
30
Expected awards

The verdict

Documenting Endangered Languages is a closed discretionary listing from U.S. National Science Foundation that offered Varies by applicant across 30 expected awards. Future funding cycles may be published under the same CFDA number. PlainGrants indexes 1,338 other opportunities from U.S. National Science Foundation.

Varies
award range
Closed
application status
30
expected awards
47.050;47.070;47.075
CFDA program

Archived opportunity record

Documenting Endangered Languages is closed. Check the agency catalog for replacement NOFOs. U.S. National Science Foundation still indexes 1,338 other opportunities here.

According to Grants.gov (extract vintage 2026-08-10), this record reflects the officially published listing. See methodology.

Deadline tracker

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Posted Jun 6 Closed

Est. Total Funding

$4,800,000

Expected Awards

30

Instrument

Grant

Description

This funding partnership between the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) supports projects to develop and advance knowledge concerning endangered human languages. Made urgent by the imminent death of roughly half of the approximately 7000 currently used languages, this effort aims to exploit advances in information technology to build computational infrastructure for endangered language research. The program supports projects that contribute to data management and archiving, and to the development of the next generation of researchers. Funding can support fieldwork and other activities relevant to the digital recording, documenting, and archiving of endangered languages, including the preparation of lexicons, grammars, text samples, and databases. Funding will be available in the form of one- to three-yearsenior researchgrants,fellowships from sixto twelve months, and conference proposals. Note: a conference proposal should generally be submitted at least a year in advance of the scheduled date of the conference. For additional information about creating and submitting conference proposals to the DEL program, please refer to Chapter II. D.7 of the NSF Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide.

Catch-all / unrestricted eligibility mark · 18-580

Grants.gov marks Documenting Endangered Languages with a catch-all / unrestricted eligibility code (Others (see official listing text)). Read the official announcement text for the real applicant filter — the code alone is not a door list. The extract does not mark applicant cost-sharing as required. Instrument: Grant. Funding-activity code maps to Science and Technology / R&D (ST). This eligibility-code string dominates the U.S. National Science Foundation book (722 peers, 54% of 1,339).

Code 25
Others (see official listing text)

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