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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 Village Sign Languages in Nepal

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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Initiating Language Documentation Program in Leti

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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Jirim voices: Documentation and Description of Jirim Language and Traditions

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 Uipo

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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The Documentation of Kol Narratives in Bangladesh

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 linguistic repertoires, culture, and oral tradition of the Nsua of Semuliki Forest

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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High-quality searchable corpus of the Cheyi language

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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Initial documentation of Benggoi of Eastern Seram island

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 Animere in Kecheibi and Kunda

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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