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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 the Ye'kwana language in the Caura basin

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 mythology and shamanic songs of the Nahua, Panoan speaking people of Peruvian Amazon

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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Expanding the documentation and description of Hupa (Athabaskan)

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 project (completion)

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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Lower St'at'imcets 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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Barupu grammar and lexicography

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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Documenting the Bayot language (a West-African language of the Joola group)

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 grammar of the Nevwervwer language of Malakula (Vanuatu, Southwest Pacific)

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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Discovering Mafea: texts, grammar and lexicon

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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