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Endangered Languages Documentation Programme

The Endangered Language Documentation Programme (ELDP) provides grants worldwide for the linguistic documentation of endangered languages and knowledge. Grantees create audiovisual collections with transcription and translations of endangered languages and practices. These collections are preserved and made freely available through the Endangered Languages Archive (ELAR).

The Programme was founded in 2002 by Arcadia and has been housed at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities since 2021. Its mandate is to support the documentation of endangered languages, to encourage fieldwork on endangered languages, to create a repository of resources for linguistics, social science, and the language communities, and to make the documentary collections freely available.

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Endangered Languages Documentation Programme Projects

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Documentation of Pela and Language contact between Pela and Zaiwa in lexical and syntactic borrowings

The Endangered Language Documentation Programme (ELDP) provides grants worldwide for the documentation of endangered languages and knowledge. Grantees create audiovisual colle…

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Documentation and Grammatical Description of Opuuo

The Endangered Language Documentation Programme (ELDP) provides grants worldwide for the documentation of endangered languages and knowledge. Grantees create audiovisual colle…

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A documentation of the Tomárâho variety of Chamacoco, a language of the Paraguayan Chaco, and research into its verbal morphosyntax.

The Endangered Language Documentation Programme (ELDP) provides grants worldwide for the documentation of endangered languages and knowledge. Grantees create audiovisual colle…

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Documentation and Grammatical Description of the Shabo Language: A Very Endangered Isolate Language of Southwestern Ethiopia

The Endangered Language Documentation Programme (ELDP) provides grants worldwide for the documentation of endangered languages and knowledge. Grantees create audiovisual colle…

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A pan-dialectal documentation of Wik-Ngathan and Wik-Ngatharr: Cape York Peninsula, Australia

The Endangered Language Documentation Programme (ELDP) provides grants worldwide for the documentation of endangered languages and knowledge. Grantees create audiovisual colle…

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Documentation of Ayere, an endangered and undocumented minority language of the Nigerian Middle Belt

The Endangered Language Documentation Programme (ELDP) provides grants worldwide for the documentation of endangered languages and knowledge. Grantees create audiovisual colle…

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Documentation of Seke (Ske) - an undescribed and endangered language of Pentecost Island, Vanuatu

The Endangered Language Documentation Programme (ELDP) provides grants worldwide for the documentation of endangered languages and knowledge. Grantees create audiovisual colle…

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A pan-dialectal documentation of Wik-Ngatharr, Cape York Peninsula, Australia

The Endangered Language Documentation Programme (ELDP) provides grants worldwide for the documentation of endangered languages and knowledge. Grantees create audiovisual colle…

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Kalmyk/Oirat; development of teaching materials for Kalmyk national schools; comparative studies of Kalmyk and Oirat

The Endangered Language Documentation Programme (ELDP) provides grants worldwide for the documentation of endangered languages and knowledge. Grantees create audiovisual colle…

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