The Endangered Language Documentation Programme (ELDP) aims to support the documentation and preservation of endangered languages across the globe. This initiative provides grants to individuals worldwide, including linguists, linguistic anthropologists, and community members skilled in linguistic documentation, facilitating the recording of endangered languages to safeguard these languages for future generations.
The grants offered by the ELDP aim to support the documentation of as many endangered languages as possible, encouraging fieldwork on these languages. They seek to create a repository of resources for linguistics, social science, and the language communities themselves, ensuring that the documentary collections are freely available. The Individual Postdoctoral Fellowship (IPF) expects applicants to have a track record of documentary work and research publications, a clear relationship and support system with their host institution, and well-defined strategies for documentation and research during the award period, with a maximum award of 250,000€.
Potential projects funded by ELDP should produce materials across several media, including video, audio, images, and written documents, all structured with metadata for long-term preservation. These collections should cover a broad spectrum of language use, from everyday conversations to ceremonial speech, and include a range of linguistic materials such as spoken language recordings, written texts, cultural information, formal linguistic resources, and pedagogical materials, aimed at both the language community and the wider scientific community.