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Community based Language Documentation and Revitalization Efforts: Approaches by 7000 Languages

'Empowering Community-based Language Documentation and Revitalization Efforts: Approaches by 7000 Languages' Presented by Stephanie Witkowski at the Language Documentation and Archiving Conference, Berlin & Online, 4-6 Sept, 2024 #lda2024 In the landscape of language revitalization efforts, communities facing language endangerment often encounter challenges in accessing essential resources and expertise. Academic institutions, while repositories of valuable knowledge, may be inaccessible due to historical and socioeconomic factors, leaving many Indigenous communities without vital support for their revitalization endeavors. Consequently, external assistance, albeit sometimes effective, can lead to dependency and limited community input in program development. Our initiative, 7000 Languages, a US-based nonprofit serving communities internationally, aims to address these gaps by prioritizing community-led efforts in language revitalization. Through direct engagement with communities, we provide expertise, resources, and support, particularly in the realm of language learning technology. Our approach emphasizes the training and development of community leadership, ensuring sustainable, internally driven revitalization efforts. In this presentation, we will showcase our partnership models, highlighting successful collaborations between our initiative and community-based organizations as well as discuss Indigenous data rights and access in this space. These partnerships include our Fellowship program, which empowers individuals to create resources for their language communities within weeks of initiation, and ongoing community collaborations. By sharing our experiences, we aim to demonstrate pathways to partnership that foster long-term success without perpetuating dependency on external support or extractive processes. Through our participation, we contribute to discussions on the impacts of documentation and archiving, showcasing how archived materials are utilized by Indigenous communities to create online language learning materials. Additionally, we engage with the planning and design aspects for the future decade, focusing on indigenous-led projects, accessibility solutions, and broader public engagement initiatives. We hope our presentation will contribute to the conference's goal of sharing knowledge, developing capacity, and supporting communities in their efforts to record and revitalize Indigenous languages.