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Committee on Endangered Languages and Their Preservation (CELP)
Background
Established in 1992.
Charge
The CELP encourages the study and documentation of endangered languages and makes technical assistance available to language communities seeking to maintain their languages as living means of communication, or to document them for future generations. The Committee coordinates its activities with other relevant organizations, such as CIPL, the American Anthropological Association (AAA), the Society for the Study of Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA), the Society for Linguistic Anthropology, the endangered language committees of the linguistic professional societies of Canada, Australia, Germany, and others, and several private organizations and foundations focused on language endangerment, including the Institute for the Preservation of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas.
Responsibilities
The work of the Committee includes but is not limited to the following:
- Promotes strategies for use by individuals and institutions to assist and support the maintenance and revitalization of language varieties in language communities at risk of, or currently experiencing, significant language or dialect loss.
- Assists institutions to offer training and degree programs oriented to the preparation of grammars and dictionaries of threatened and poorly documented languages, as well as to the documentation and study of naturally occurring speech of all kinds in communities whose traditional linguistic variety is threatened.
Membership (open)
At least 6 members, serving three-year terms.
Committee Members
- Lise Dobrin, University of Virginia, Chair (2010)
- Peter Austin, School of Oriental and African Studies (2010)
- Peter Cole, University of Delaware (2010)
- Arienne Dwyer, University of Kansas (2010)
- Alice Gaby, University of California, Berkeley (2010)
- Carol Genetti, University of California, Santa Barbara (2011)
- Gary Holton, Alaska Native Language Center (2012)
- Carmen Jany, California State University San Bernardino (2011)
- Alexander King, University of Aberdeen (2010)
- Liberty Lidz (2011), Student Member
- Victoria Rau, Wheaton College (2012)
- Ryan Shosted, University of Illinois (2011)
- Wilson Silva, University of Utah (2010)
