#GivingTuesday is today!

What is Giving Tuesday?
Giving Tuesday (Nov 29, 2016) is a global day of action, celebrating community collaboration by encouraging people to contribute to great causes online.

Give a gift to Living Tongues Institute and help us continue our work documenting endangered languages. The funds we raise go directly towards our programs.

Since 2005, our research teams have reached endangered language communities in fifteen countries. We have collaborated with speakers to create more than one hundred Talking Dictionaries. With your help, we can increase our impact.

2016 was a busy year!
Read on to learn more about our recent work documenting languages around the world.

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PACIFIC REGION
So far, 2016 has been a great year for expanding our research in the Pacific region, particularly in Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu. Check out our update on Pacific Ethnobotany and Languages to see what we’ve been working on.

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INDIA
This year, much progress was made collaborating with local speakers and researchers to document endangered languages in India.

For the Munda Languages Initiative, Dr. Gregory D. S. Anderson travelled to India to lead community trainings, and continued weekly digital collaboration sessions with Living Tongues project coordinator and Mundari speaker Dr. Bikram Jora, as well as Sora speaker and Munda researcher Mr. Opino Gomango. Read more here about our recent Munda projects.
For the languages of Arunachal Pradesh, community-led documentation projects for the Tibeto-Burman languages Koro Aka and Hruso Aka moved along smoothly during 2016. Lexical and grammatical data collected by speakers massively expanded the linguistic resources available for both of these under-documented languages. Read more here about our progress in Arunachal.

Thanks for your support!