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Organization dedicated to American Indian language preservation. Provides vocabulary lists, links, and online information about each Native American language and the indigenous people who speak it.
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Native American Language Net: Preserving and promoting indigenous American Indian languages Our website is not beautiful. Probably, it never will be. But this site has inner beauty, for it is, or will be, a compendium of online materials about more than 800 indigenous languages of the Western Hemisphere and the people...Manifesto, membership details, proceedings, grant applications, newsletter, and bibliography.
http://www.ogmios.org/28.htm
Inventory of institutions and organizations (academic, governmental, non-governmental, international, national, regional, local) dedicated to the study and maintenance of the indigenous and minority languages of the world, as well as to fostering linguistic diversity in general.
http://cougar.ucdavis.edu/nas/terralin/endlangs.html
Collaborates with indigenous communities to revitalize and perpetuate the languages and culture of the original inhabitants of the Americas.
http://www.indigenous-language.org/
University of Arizona project devoted to indigenous language revitalization in the Southwestern United States.
http://projects.ltc.arizona.edu/gates/TELR.html
Complete online text of a handbook on the preservation of Native American languages.
http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~jar/RIL_Contents.html