our mission

The Bloomfield Language Institute (BLI) conserves and develops people’s language capacities and literacy skills through education, so they can sustainably realize their full social and economic potential.


Let me now state my belief that the peculiar factor in man which forbids our explaining his actions upon the ordinary plane of biology is a highly specialized and unstable biological complex, and that this factor is none other than language.
— Leonard Bloomfield, American Linguist

Our goal over the next 10 years is to have some form of documentation for all of the nearly 3,000 languages that are currently endangered.