If we don't change the funding model, other communities will absolutely find themselves in the same situation as us, which is something I do not wish to see. In 2017, we started an in‑depth study of manuscripts and archival documents. That took many years. I myself took language training to be able to speak my ancestral language. I spent six years at the doctoral level and three years while doing my masters. That was nine years of study in order to do the work that I'm doing right now, which is to reconstruct a language using archival material. It requires an enormous amount of research.
I will say that the situation is urgent, because other communities may find themselves in a similar situation, and they might not have as much documentation as us. We have to change the funding model and get the funds that will allow us to do our work. We need funding over a minimum of five years, rather than one or two years.