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<!--StartFragment--><p class="MsoNormal">Dear ILAT Community,</p><p class="MsoNormal">The Endangered Language Fund would like to send out a
reminder that registration for CoLang 2012 (Collaborative Language Research) is
still underway.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The CoLang
Institute consists of a two-week series of courses and workshops in language
documentation, and an optional four-week "practicum" working with
native speakers of one of four languages (Cherokee, Tlingit, Uda or Amazigh
(Berber)).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal">The Institute will take place at the University of Kansas,
Lawrence, KS, from June 18 - July 27, 2012.<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>For more information and registration, please visit the
CoLang site <a href="http://idrh.ku.edu/colang2012/">here</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>There are two scholarships for CoLang 2012 available through
the Endangered Language Fund.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>The first is for tribal members of those tribes that are
eligible for the Native Voices Endowment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>The list of eligible tribes for this funding can be found <a href="http://www.endangeredlanguagefund.org/eligible_tribes.php">here</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>The second will be for an enrolled member of any other US tribe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>For both funding opportunities, please send us an email stating
your tribe and proof of enrollment; whether you want to take just the classes or the classes plus a
language practicum; and what your expectations are for how the experience at
CoLang might to affect your work with your language.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>Applications to ELF (just the brief email mentioned above) are
due 20 April.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We will announce
awards by 23 April. Registration at CoLang must be completed by 30 April.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>Sincerely, Doug Whalen DhW</p><p class="MsoNormal">The Endangered Language Fund</p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:elf@endangeredlanguagefund.org">elf@endangeredlanguagefund.org</a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; ">Douglas H. Whalen, President <br>Endangered Language Fund <br>300 George St., Suite 900 <br>New Haven, CT 06511 <br>USA <br>+1-203-865-6163, ext. 265 (or 234 for Whalen) <br><a href="mailto:elf@endangeredlanguagefund.org">elf@endangeredlanguagefund.org</a> <br> <a href="http://www.endangeredlanguagefund.org">www.endangeredlanguagefund.org</a></span></div></span></span></span></div></span>
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