Documenting Endangered Languages ... but not in Alaska

I just stumbled upon the award announcements for the Documenting Endangered Languages program of National Endowment for the Humanities. Of the 11 awards made, none support work in Alaska. This may be a first, as the DEL program has supported many important projects in Alaska over the past several years, including projects located at the Sealaska Heritage Institute, the Alutiiq Museum, the Alaska Native Heritage Center, and the Alaska Native Language Center.

Applications for the 2011 round are due September 15, 2010, just about 4 months from now. See the NEH website for details.

Here's a list of the 2010 DEL awards, extracted from the March NEH award announcement.

• Potawatomi Language Documentation, Lexical Database, and Dictionary (Monica Macaulay)
• Lenape Language Project (Shelley DePaul)
• Natugu: Grammar Sketch and Texts (Brenda Boerger)
• Salvage Documentation of Yahgan (Yoram Meroz)
• The Sara Language Database Project: Phase 1 (John Keegan)
• Blackfoot Documentation: Transcription, Interlinear Analysis, and Electronic Database (Mizuki Miyashita)
• Documenting the Me'phaa Genus (Stephen Marlett)
• Wampanoag Grammar (Jessie Baird)
• Publishing and Archiving of Coatec Zapotec Materials (Rosemary Beam-de-Azcona)
• Chicago Historical Archive of Mesoamerican Linguistics (John Lucy)
• Lachixio Zapotec Conversations: Audio-Visual Archive and Transcription Collection (Mark Sicoli)