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 Frisian. Report
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
