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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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Documenting endangered sign languages in Java and Bali

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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Wardaman Dictionary, Narrative, Song and Country

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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Traditional Ecological Knowledge of the Awiakay and Meakambut, Papua New Guinea

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 severely endangered languages Makurap and Wayoro (Brazil): material and non-material traditional culture, and its associated knowledge

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 multimedia corpus of siPhuthi, an endangered language of Lesotho: Its linguistic-cultural legacy and present-day use

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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Totonac Ethnobotanical Knowledge: Documenting Traditional Ecological Knowledge Across Communities

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 Lemo, a Dialect of Bai spoken in the Nujiang Valley of Yunnan Province, China

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 Beirut Domari, an endangered variety of Domari.

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 'Olekha, with a Focus on Traditional Ethnobotanical Knowledge

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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