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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 Baba'l, a Bantu language from the Grassfields of Cameroon

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 Central Tseltal: creation of a broad corpus for multiple uses

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 the Ese Ejja language of the Amazonian region of Bolivia

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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Talyshi documentation and description

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 description of Ikaan, a language in Southern Nigeria

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 description of the Southeastern Huastec, a Mayan language from Veracruz, Mexico

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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Multimedia documentation of the endangered Vasyugan and Alexandrovo Khanty dialects of Tomsk region in Siberia

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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Kari'nja dictionary and video documentation

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 traditional Warlpiri ceremony

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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