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Documenting Endangered Languages (DEL) is a joint funding program of the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) focused on supporting research and documentation efforts for endangered human languages. The opportunity is framed around the urgency that roughly half of the worlds approximately 7,000 living languages may disappear in the foreseeable future, taking with them unique cultural knowledge, histories, and scientific value for understanding human cognition, communication, and social life. A central emphasis of the program is using advances in information technology to strengthen the computational and digital infrastructure needed to record, manage, analyze, and preserve endangered language materials in sustainable and widely usable ways.

The program supports a wide range of activities tied to the digital recording, documentation, and archiving of endangered languages. This can include direct fieldwork with speaker communities, creation of structured language resources, and preparation of core documentary outputs such as lexicons and dictionaries, grammatical descriptions, curated text collections, audio and video recordings, and other databases that make language materials discoverable and usable for research and for communities. In addition to producing new documentation, DEL also highlights the importance of data management and archiving, meaning projects are expected to treat long term preservation, organization, and access as a major part of the work rather than an afterthought. Another stated goal is developing the next generation of researchers, so proposals that include training components, mentorship, or capacity building are aligned with the program priorities.

Funding under this opportunity was offered through multiple mechanisms. Project grants could run from one to three years, supporting larger, organized efforts to document languages and build or improve associated resources. The program also offered fellowships of up to twelve months, aimed at supporting individual scholars working on endangered language documentation and related research activities. In addition, doctoral dissertation research improvement grants (DDRIG) were available for up to 24 months, supporting dissertation level research; applicants were directed to consult DEL specific guidance for submitting DDRIG proposals in the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) context.

Administratively, this opportunity was listed as a discretionary grant program within the Science and Technology and other Research and Development activity category. The funding opportunity number was NSF 11-554, with an estimated total funding amount of $4,100,000 and an expectation of about 22 awards. Individual awards ranged from an award floor of $12,000 up to an award ceiling of $450,000, and there was no cost sharing or matching requirement. The program was associated with multiple CFDA listings, including 47.070 (Computer and Information Science and Engineering), 47.075 (Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences), and 47.078 (Polar Programs), reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of endangered language work and the programs interest in both humanities oriented documentation and technology enabled data methods.

Eligibility covered several categories. Proposals could be submitted by US based universities and colleges (including accredited two year and four year institutions and community colleges), as well as non profit, non academic organizations such as independent museums, observatories, research labs, professional societies, and similar US organizations connected to education or research. Unaffiliated individuals who are US based scientists, engineers, or educators and who are US citizens were also eligible, along with tribal organizations and other American Indian, Alaska Native, and Hawaiian serving organizations. For project grants there was no specific PI eligibility limit stated beyond the organizational and general program requirements. For fellowships, eligibility extended to US citizens and also to foreign nationals who had lived in the United States or its jurisdictions for at least the three years prior to the proposal deadline; fellowship applicants could apply either through an institutional affiliation or as unaffiliated individuals.

In terms of timing and status, the opportunity was originally posted on June 23, 2011, with proposal deadlines listed as September 20, 2011 and September 15, 2012, and then September 15 annually thereafter while the solicitation was active. The record indicates the opportunity is now archived and was replaced by NSF 14-580, with an archive date of August 20, 2014. For applicants who historically needed technical help accessing the announcement, the listed support contact was NSF grants.gov support at grantsgovsupport@nsf.gov.

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