Living Languages

Living Languages is an international non-profit organisation which was established to advance the sustainability of the world's Indigenous languages.

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History

The organisation was founded as the Resource Network for Linguistic Diversity in 2004 by linguists Margaret Florey and Nicholas Thieberger as a resource organisation aiming to support linguistic diversity by offering a range of training programs, facilitating networking between language maintenance practitioners, and maintaining a website with various practical resources. Living Languages is incorporated in Victoria, Australia, and is registered as a tax-exempt organisation. Funded activities by Living Languages are primarily supported by the Indigenous Languages Support grant scheme from the Government of Australia. In September of 2019, it renamed to 'Living Languages', with the stated goal of better reflecting the organisation's mission.

Mission

When initially founded as the RNLD, its mission statement was stated as:
Since renaming to Living Languages in 2019, this was updated to:

Resources

Living Languages provides a range of resources to support language documentation and revitalisation activities. These include information about national and international funding opportunities for language work, links to blogs and networks including the active the organisation's email discussion list, and other resources for language documentation and revitalisation such as information about software, language materials, language centres, equipment for language work, orthography development, data management, training programs, and language documentation projects.