The Endangered Language Fund is a small non-profit organization based in New Haven, Connecticut. E.L.F. supports endangered language maintenance and documentation projects that aim to preserve the world’s languages while contributing rare linguistic data to the scientific community. The Fund has sponsored over 100 language projects in 30 countries since 1997, and has recently begun developing a large digital archive of endangered language data. Douglas Whalen is the President of the Endangered Language Fund. The office of the Fund are presently located in space lent by Haskins Laboratories. There is no formal affiliation between the two organizations. The ELF is associated with the international network of the Linguapax Institute, as the lead of Linguapax North America.[1]
