Launched in 2007 by the joint effort of the Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages and the National Geographic Society, it has organized expeditions to language "hotspots" around the world, e.g. to Australia, Bolivia, East India.
The Enduring Voices Project assists indigenous communities in their efforts to revitalize and maintain their threatened languages.
It is a new way to view the distribution of global linguistic diversity, to assess the threat of language extinction, and to.
For the project, Doctors Anderson and Harrison are accompanied by Chris Rainier,[1] a National Geographic Fellow and ethnographic photographer and filmmaker for helping in documenting various linguistic expedition on camera and film.
[3] During a three-week trip in 2009, the Enduring Voices team recorded interviews with speakers of eleven indigenous languages of Papua New Guinea.