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Jacob Menschel, Stipendiat der GBS 2024, stellte bei der Mitgliederversammlung 2025 sein Projekt zum Andoke vor.

Current Projects

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Projekte 2025

Making a basic dictionary for Raute community

Bolango Language: Documentation and Phonetics Description

Quichua Santiagueño

Digital Documentation and Archival Preservation of the Endangered Toto and Rabha Languages of North Bengal

Documentation of Ukwa Oral literature

Projekte 2024

RELATI. Collective memories, biocultural heritage and environmental crisis.

Documentation of Libations in Etebi

Documenting Takestani Dialect of Tati

COLLECTION & PUBLISHING OF THE UDI LANGUAGE POEMS OF ZHENIA MAMULASHVILI: Udi Language Preservation Efforts in the Only Udi Village of Georgia

Remembering Ceferino

Projekte 2023

The Nisvai-Bislama dictionary

Documentation of traditional Myths and proverbial riddles in Uda language

Karten-Rate-Spiel zur Förderung der Sprache Zazaki

HIGA Alumni Online Conference

Tagshurt grammar and corpus

Konzeption und Herstellung von Lehrmaterialien für die Sprache Andwa / Katsakati (Ecuador)

Projekte 2022

Documentation of endangered widows' narratives of the Eghwu clan (Nigeria)

Ekpeye multimedia book project (Nigeria)

Yurakaré dictionary project (Bolivia)

Community-based Dictionary of Raji

Projekte 2018

Past projects

Projects 2019
  • Dubi Nanda Dhakal received 1,459 € for the project “A Community-Based Dictionary of Bote, spoken in Nepal” Report
  • Dorothea Schroeder received 900 € for the project “Ein Booklet über das zweisprachige (Romanes – Deutsch) Theaterprojekt ‘Arnikos Abenteuer’ nach ‘Die Ursitory’ von Matéo Maximoff [A booklet about the bilingual (Romanes- German) theater project ‘Arniko’s adventure’ after ‘Die Ursitory’ by Matéo Maximoff”.Report
  • The project “Documentation of Chulung vocabulary (Nepal)” by Prof. Ichchha Purna Rai and Rolf Hotz was funded with 1.050 €. Report
  • Akpobome Diffre-Odiete received 1,432 € for the project “Pictorial and Audio-Visual Documentation of Oral Genres of Okpẹ, spoken in Nigeria” Report
Projects 2018
  • Manjiri Paranjape received € 1,500 for the project “Documentation of Madia Language in Maharashtra, India”. Report
  • GBS supported Felix Anker’s project “Sprachdokumentation Tsova-Tush” with € 891. Report
Projects 2017
  • A project by Xiaolan (Amy) Cao on “Documentation of Wucun Pinghua folk tales, fables, and legends (China)” was funded with € 1,490. Report
  • Robbie Penman received € 1,496 for a project on “Simultaneous revitalization and documentation of Chesungun (southern Chile)”. Report
  • The National Library of Israel’s project „Saving and Reviving Judeo-Moroccan“ was supported with 1.450€. Report
Projects 2016
  • Torben Hinrichs, on behalf of Seelter Buund and Litje Skoule Skäddel from Scharrel in Emsland, Germany, receives€ 1,500 for creating teaching materials in Sater FrisianReport
  • Linda Chinelo Nkamigbo receives € 1,430 for her audio-visual documentation of narratives in Koring (Nigeria). Report
  • GBS supports Cristiano Tallès‘ project of creating a Huave Toponymic Atlas, which documents place names in the Huave language of Mexico, with € 1,500.Report
Projects 2015
  • Sheena Shah receives € 1,497 for her project on narratives of Phuthi, a language spoken in parts of Lesotho and South Africa. She will document oral accounts on the past and present of the language and its speakers.Report
  • Michael Hornsby’s project to document age-related variation among Lemko speakers in Poland is supported with € 1,022. Report
  • Hilarius Ratu, speaker of Palu’e, receives € 1.100 € for his documentation of traditional Palu'e medicine (ngiru huru auf Palu’e). Palu’e is spoken on the island Palu'e cose to Flores in Indonesia. Report
  • Christian Heger receives € 1,500 to support the printing of his book “Wäller Platt. Geschichte, Grammatik und Wortschatz des Westerwälder Dialekts”, a comprehensive description of a Moselle Franconian dialect. Report
  • Bien DoBui and Jair Apostol‘s project “Cross-mediated elicitation in Amuzgo (spoken in Mexico): Application of a participatory and experimental model from the Meso-American Morphophonology Project” is supported with € 1,500. Report
Projects 2014
  • Stefan Danerek receives € 1,384 for the documentation of historically and culturally important narratives in Palu’e, an Austronesian language of Flores. ReportAudioarchiv
  • Sabine Reiter and Benedita do Socorro Pinto Borges are supported with € 700 by GBS in order to document ideophones and other elements of oral discourse in the Quilombo community in the Cametá/Pará region of Brazil. Report
  • Miguel Oliveira, Jr. of Universidade Federal de Alagoas in Brazil is supported with € 1,500 for documenting traditional narratives in Yaathe! in northeastern Brazil. Report
  • GBS provides € 1,411 for a two-week long workshop on language documentation methods for the Ralte language community in India and Myanmar, which is organized by the Zo Indigenous Forum (ZIF). Report
Projects 2013
  • Rita Prazeres Diniz Pedro was supported with € 1,480 for creating an interactive multimedia map of the town Minde (Portugal) in the local language Minderico. Report
  • Laetitia Smoll received € 1,492.50 for creating and printing a collection of oral traditions of the Tunayana (Katuena) in Suriname. Report
  • Joshua Schwab Cartas received a € 1,450 grant for his project “Engaging Zapotec Youth in Intergenerational Dialogue through Participatory Video”. Report
Projects 2012
  • Konrad Rybka received € 1,500 for creating a book to popularize the standardized orthography of Lokono (Suriname). Report
  • Iveth Rodríguez was supported with € 1,440. The first part of the grant is used to carry out fieldwork on Pisamira (Colombia), the second part is used to create a Pisamira-Spanish dictionary as well as an archive of audio, video, and text data. Report
  • Elizabeth Valencia Pérez was supported with € 1,464 for publishing a text collection of Yuruti (Colombia).  ReportFairytales
  • Dimitrios Stafidas received € 1,480 for work on a multilingual pictorial dictionary of Agiassotika (Greece).  Report
Projects 2011
  • Steven Heimlichs received € 1,310.79 for a bilingual English-Runyoro (Uganda) text book documenting Runyoro idioms and their meaning and culture-specific use.ReportIdioms
  • Gian Claudio Batic received € 1,071 for a field trip to Nigeria to produce a Bure-English-Hausa dictionary with about 2,500 entries. Report
  • We support a project by the Kulturstiftung Sibirien (the Foundation for Siberian Cultures), represented by Erich Kasten, with € 1,250, in which older recordings of the Siberian language Nanai will be digitized and archived. These data will be further processed into educational material. Report
Projects 2010
  • Zelealem Leyew was supported with € 1,490 to contribute to the documentation of Kulisi, which is spoken by a small and largely unknown ethnolinguistic group in the northwest of Ethiopia. He plans to collect texts, to describe grammar and vocabulary, and also to document cultural aspects using audio and video recording. Report
  • Nadine Brückner received € 1,199 for the documentation of Kara (Southwest-Ethiopia) in the form of word lists and songs.  Report
  • Leonid Schkolnikow received € 800 for his work with the Litvak dialect of Eastern Yiddish. He will record, transcribe, translate texts. These activities are part of a larger project by Mr. Schkolnikow that aims to create a bilingual dictionary of Litvak-Yiddish in German and Russian and a short Yiddish pictorial dictionary as an appendix. Additional textbooks are also planned. Report
  • Kristine Skarbø was supported with € 1,470 in her work with the Kichwa community in Cotacachi (Ecuador), who speak a Quechua language. The money is used to finance printing 500 copies of the illustrated bilingual (Spanish-Kichwa) children’s book “The Creation of our Nature”. Report
  • Juliette Blevins and Natalia Bermudez of the Endangered Languages Alliance in New York received € 950 in support for the documentation and preservation of Naso (Teribe), an endangered language in Panama. They plan to collect texts and descriptive materials and to make them available to the speaker community. In addition, speakers of Naso will be trained in documentation methods – such as video recording and linguistic fieldwork. ReportPresentation
Projects 2009
  • Joshua Birchall was supported with € 720 in carrying out a fieldwork and documentation project about Oro Win (Brazil). Report
  • Ismael Mohammed Salim received € 1,490 as support for archiving cassette recordings of Soqotri (Yemen).  Report
  • Angelika Jakobi received € 734.16 as support for a part of the larger Uncunwee documentation project (Sudan). Report
  • Andreas Fink received € 1,322 as support for carrying out a fieldwork project and creating a text collection in Hasankeyf Arabic (Turkey).  Report
Projects 2008
  • Walter Breu received a partial grant of € 650 for the publication of a translation of The Little Prince into Molise Slavic. Report
  • Sabine Salffner received € 673 as support for a transcription of recordings of Ikaan (Nigeria). Report
  • Rogier Blokland received € 1,250 as support for a film documentation of Komi (Kola Peninsula). Report
  • Marieke Martin was supported with € 1,499 in carrying out fieldwork for documenting and describing Wawa (Cameroon). Website
  • Anita von Poser was supported with € 1,500 in carrying out fieldwork and creating language materials on Bosmun (Papua New Guinea). Website
Projects 2007
  • Lesya Koshmanyuk received a grant of € 1000 to collect data and publish East-Swedish texts that document a dialect of Swedish spoken only by a few elderly people in Ukraine.
  • Inam Ullah received a partial grant of € 400 for his long-term project of creating a comprehensive word list of the Torwali language (Pakistan) and publishing it on the internet.
  • A project by Tilman Musch to publish existing recordings of Buryat texts on CD was supported with € 890. Report
  • The initiative by Luis Simarra to publish a pedagogical grammar of the Colombian creole language Palenquero was supported with a partial grant of € 500, which was sufficient to print approximately 500 copies.
  • GBS supported Javier Ruedas with € 1500, whose project aimed to record, transcribe and translate mythical songs of the Brazilian Marubo and to distribute these songs on CD. Website
  • The Studienhaus für keltische Sprachen und Kulturen received a partial grant of € 500 for the publication of a Modern Irish Textbook.
Projects 2006
  • Victoria Nyst received € 1,500 in support of a fieldwork trip to Mali to document the local indigenous sign language.
  • Stefan Bargstedt received a partial grant for publishing a book which aims to promote public interest in Low Saxon. Report
  • Marta Pabón received € 1,200 for the creation of a text collection in Totoró, an indigenous language of Colombia. Report
  • Alexandre Pioli received € 1,200 for the creation of a text collection in Rikbaktsa, an indigenous language of Brazil. Website
Projects 2005
  • A grant of € 500 was awarded to Jürgen Sutter for creating a dictionary of the dialect of Opfingen (South-Alemannic). The money was intended as support for carrying out final fieldwork. Website
  • A grant of € 1,500 was awarded to Felix Rau for the project Documentation of Gorum (Munda, India). The money served as a partial grant for a fieldwork trip in the summer of 2005. Report
  • As support for the maintenance of Modern East Aramaic (Turoyo), the Kreis Aramäischer Studierender Heidelberg e.V. received a grant of € 1,000. The money was intended as a partial grant for printing the translation of the world-reknowned book The Little Prince into Turoyo. Distributing the translation, especially to younger speakers of Turoyo, will contribute to establishing a standard orthography for Turoyo and serve as an incentive for children and adolescents to familiarize themselves with their native language.
Projects 2004
  • Cordula Voigts received € 1,500 in support of a fieldwork trip to document the Alpine varieties of Occitan. The collected data will serve as a basis for structural linguistic and contact linguistic research on these varieties
Projects 2003
  • For fieldwork in Pfalzdorf, Louisendorf and Neulouisendorf, René Schiering received a grant of € 800. The data collected during the fieldtrip serve to document Pälzersch, a Palatine enclave in the Lower Rhine area. Report
  • Michael Rießler received € 1,000 for carrying out fieldwork in Olenegorsk, Russia, as part of a documentation project on the language of the Ter Saami. Report
  • For the transcription and translation of narrative texts in Kurmanji-Kurdish recorded during earlier fieldwork, Dr. Geoffrey Haig received a grant of € 1,120. Bericht 
  • Dr. Zelealem Leyew received € 1,500 for the collection of lexical data on the northern Mao languages in Ethiopia. The collected data will help to shed light on the affiliation of northern Mao. Report
Projects 2002
  • In support of the revitalization of Wintu, a language in California, Stefan Liedtke received € 1,000. This money was intended for the creation of teaching material.
  • Marielle Prins received € 1,100 for collecting language data in the Cone dialects of Tibetan
Projects 2001
  • For a survey on the sociolinguistic situation of Kalmyk, a Mongolian language in Central Asia, and a documentation of the language, Aisa Bitkeeva (Elista, Republic of Kalmykia, CIS) was supported with 1,000 DM. Report
Projects 2000
  • Dr. Eithne B. Carlin (Leiden, The Netherlands) received 5,000 DM for the creation of a text collection and short grammar of Mawayana, an unclassified language of southern Suriname. Report
Projects 1999
  • Nuran Sevim Genç (Cologne) and Silvia Kutscher (Bochum) received 3,000 DM for their project to document Laz.
  • The Documentation of Govorka Pidgin on the Siberian Taimyr Peninsula project by Dieter Stern (Bonn) was supported with 2,000 DM.
Projects 1998
  • For The East-Franconian dialect of the village Hetzles project, Klaus Geyer (University of Kiel) received 1,000 DM. Report
  • The project A record of Maybrat for the Speakers by Philomena Dol (University of Leiden, The Netherlands) was supported with a grant of 4,000 DM. Report