Record and review
Support consultation with speakers, pronunciation work, corrections, and careful review of forms and meanings.
WHY THE DICTIONARY MATTERS
A language lives when people can find themselves in it.
Rhade—called Êđê by its speakers—carries family relationships, place knowledge, oral memory, and everyday ways of understanding the world. When words become hard to find, more than vocabulary can drift out of reach.
The Rhade Dictionary gives speakers, families, learners, and researchers a shared place to search spelling, meaning, grammar, compounds, usage, and word history. It helps people reconnect without reducing a living language to a simple translation list.
Identity
Access
Continuity
THE WORK AHEAD
Preservation is ongoing work, not a one-time scan.
A digital dictionary must be checked, expanded, backed up, and made useful to real people. Contributions help the project move from archival access toward a durable, speaker-informed resource.
Prepare and publish
Help turn source material into searchable entries, learner-friendly explanations, and useful cultural context.
Keep it available
Strengthen hosting, secure backups, maintenance, and the long-term care a living digital resource requires.
CHOOSE YOUR CONTRIBUTION
Every contribution moves the work forward.
Choose a suggested one-time amount. Funds are applied where they can best strengthen the dictionary and its preservation work.
$15
Word Keeper
Helps with transcription, entry cleanup, and the small editorial tasks that make words easier to find.
Contribute $15$35
Story Steward
Supports speaker review, pronunciation planning, and the cultural context that gives entries greater depth.
Contribute $35$75
Heritage Builder
Helps advance audio, editorial development, and practical resources for families and learners.
Contribute $75$150
Archive Partner
Helps strengthen preservation, dependable hosting, backups, and continued access to the dictionary.
Contribute $150
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CONTRIBUTE WITH CONFIDENCE
A clear path from your gift to the work.
Preservation depends on trust. These answers explain how the contribution flow is designed and how else you can take part.
How will payment be handled?
WHMCS creates the contribution order and payment record. Stripe will securely process card details once the gateway is activated on the live server.
Where will contributions be used?
Funds support the project’s highest-priority preservation needs, including speaker-informed review, digital editing, audio planning, hosting, backups, maintenance, and learner access.
Is a contribution tax-deductible?
No tax-deductible status is represented on this page. Please contact the project before relying on a contribution for tax purposes.
Can I help without making a payment?
Yes. Speaker review, corrections, source materials, introductions, and volunteer help can be equally valuable. Use the contact page to tell us how you would like to contribute.
Can an organization sponsor the work?
Yes. Organizations and community groups can contact the project to discuss practical sponsorship, collaboration, or support for a specific preservation need.