Documentation Grants

About ELDP

The Endangered Languages Documentation Programme (ELDP) is funded by Arcadia (previously known as the Lisbet Rausing Charitable Fund), which provided £20 million pounds for the Project, including £17 million for grant funding.

The key objectives of ELDP are

• to support the documentation of as many endangered languages as possible
• to encourage fieldwork on endangered languages, especially by younger scholars with skills in language documentation
• to create a repository of resources for the linguistic, social science, and the language communities
  
  

Since 2003 ELDP has funded over 250 documentation projects around the world. Funded projects can be found from the box at the right or on our project page. The results of completed documentation projects funded by ELDP are made available by our archive ELAR

In 2011, ELDP awarded over £730.000 for a range of different documentary projects. The range encompasses projects such as the documentation of Michif, a mixed language spoken by less than 1000 elderly speakers across Canada; the documentation of how children learn Kata Kolok, an endangered village sign language in Bali  or the documentation of Dirge songs, ritual funeral euology, among the Uruan people in Nigeria. Outlines of all funded projects can be found at: http://www.hrelp.org/grants/projects.

Grant cycles

Each year ELDP provides a range of different grants for the documentation of endangered languages. The grant cycle for 2012 is now closed. Notification of outcomes will be 15 June 2012.

The next grant cycle will be announced in May 2012.

Click here for further information on grant types and how to apply