Western Institute for Endangered Language Documentation
Abbreviation | WIELD |
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Formation | 2013 |
Purpose | Documentation and preservation of the languages of western North America and beyond |
Headquarters | California |
President | Uldis Balodis |
Key people |
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Website | wieldoc |
The Western Institute for Endangered Language Documentation, or WIELD, is a California-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to the documentation, preservation, revitalization, and revival of fragmented languages, especially the
It was founded in 2013 by four linguists: Uldis Balodis, who has since published a grammar of the
Since its founding, WIELD has overseen several projects. In 2014, a WIELD board member located the last fluent speaker of the Wappo language, and he and another board member made two trips to make audio recordings of Wappo before the speaker died.[5] At around the same time, WIELD entered into an agreement with the California Indian Museum and Cultural Center (CIMCC) in which WIELD taught Southern Pomo language classes to heritage students in the CIMCC's facilities.[6]
Additional long-term projects by WIELD have included support for archival work on the extinct
References
- ISBN 978-0-520-29219-2.
- ^ Henry, Timothy (2012). A Pedagogical Grammar of Ventureño Chumash: Implementing Grammatical Theory in Grammar Writing. Santa Barbara: University of California.
- ISBN 978-1-4962-1765-3.
- ^ "WIELD's Logo". WIELD: Western Institute for Endangered Language Documentation. Retrieved 2021-02-08.
- ^ "Past Projects". WIELD: Western Institute for Endangered Language Documentation. Retrieved 2021-02-08.
- ^ Tomio Endo (2017) Miromaa: Awakening California tribal languages in digital spaces. In Proudfit & Myers-Lim, eds., On Indian ground: California. Information Age Publishing, Charlotte.
- ^ "Northeastern Pomo Project". WIELD: Western Institute for Endangered Language Documentation. Retrieved 2021-02-08.
- ^ Joel Newsome & Raymond Bial (2017) The people and culture of the Chumash. First peoples of North America, Cavendish Square, New York
- ^ Americanist Transcription System, WIELD
- ^ "Annual Workshop on Fragmented Languages". WIELD: Western Institute for Endangered Language Documentation. Retrieved 2021-02-08.