​We are seeking applicants for our 2026 Reclaim and Sustain Language Fellowship Cohort.

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7000 Languages is a non-profit organization with the mission to empower communities around
the world to teach, learn, and sustain their endangered languages. We are seeking applicants
for our 2026 Reclaim and Sustain Language Fellowship Cohort.

As a part of the 7000 Languages fellowship program, you will work within your community to
design and implement online language learning lessons using free language learning
technology tools. You will also meet as a cohort with our 2025-2026 fellows from Indigenous
language communities in California, to learn together about language reclamation, revitalization
tools, practices and strategies (e.g. recording audio, elicitation techniques in revitalization and
reclamation contexts, curriculum development tools, and more!).

This fellowship is ideal for an independent, driven person who wants to use their passion for
language and culture and learn about the fundamentals of project management, language
revitalization, and language learning technology.

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Learn more about the program from our current 2025-2026 Reclaim and Sustain Fellows and our recent 2024 Language Revitalization Fellows. ​​​​​​​​​​​​

We strongly encourage applications from individuals seeking to reclaim, revitalize or maintain
their ancestral language. Applicants do not need to be currently enrolled in college/university to
apply. We welcome candidates from anywhere in the world, with a special emphasis for this
year’s cohort on applicants from northeastern Tribal Nations working to reawaken and rebuild
regional Algonquian languages.

Applicants should be enrolled with, employed by or collaborating (with permission) in Alonquian
Tribal Nation language communities, Tribal Nation museums and/or language programs, etc.
Applicants may be a teacher, speaker, or linguist working with active speakers; engaged in
archival research, or just beginning research in a “sleeping” Algonquian language.

Two Algonquian fellows will be invited to join the 2026 Cohort, with extra support and guidance
provided to conduct community-specific archival research to enhance your language resources
and course development in community.

Duties:

• Create online language learning materials 

• Work with community and 7000 Languages’ staff to determine the goals, scope & deliverables for language courses

• Manage project and project components, and help keep them on schedule

• Assist communities and engage with your language and/or community through content creation, installing software, designing the courses, writing lessons, and recording audio

• Share best practices for course creation with the community (e.g. ideal recording conditions, file naming conventions, file storing, etc.)

• Maintain course files and keep track of multiple drafts and files

• Use proprietary software and other technology tools to process files for publication

• Share success stories with the 7000 Languages team

• Work on streamlining and developing technology tools and resources for community use

• Work with the 7000 team to build creative marketing content for your assigned language, community and course rollout

Ideal Qualifications:

• • Member of a community with a reclaimed ancestral language (strongly preferred) 

• • Ability to plan and implement several projects at once while remaining focused and on  schedule 

• • Attention to detail 

• • Excellent writing and proofreading skills 

• • Familiarity with Indigenous language reclamation, and language revitalization issues,  including data sovereignty (all rights to your language data and any copyrights are  locally maintained by Tribal Nations and in accordance with respect for traditional  Indigenous Knowledge protocols) 

• • Experience learning or studying a second language 

• • Comfortability using technology tools, coding, app development, etc.

Position Type/Expected Hours of Work: Fellowship contract, part-time, 10 hrs. per week (est.),  10 weeks in duration. 

Pay Range: $20 USD per hour. In addition, we are committed to helping fellows attain college  credit when/if applicable. 

Location: Remote, working in U.S. Time Zone schedules; Some regional travel to archive(s)  required (fully funded travel stipend for transportation, meals and accommodations).

Dates: June - August 2026 (with potential archives travel available early to mid-May for  preliminary fellowship research). 

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Application Deadline: March 20, 2025 11:59 PM ET

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