CILLA XI - CONGRESO DE IDIOMAS INDÍGENAS DE LATINOAMÉRICA / CONFERENCE ON INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES OF LATIN AMERICA
Participa en el undécimo Congreso de Idiomas Indígenas de Latinoamérica del 15 al 17 de octubre del 2026 en la Universidad de Texas en Austin.
El 16 octubre del 2026 , a las 2:30pm, Mandana Seyfeddinipur, Kelsey Neely y Mary Swift ofrecerán la ponencia “Solo nos demoró 25 años: Haciendo que ELAR sea accesible para Latinoamérica” en la Mesa 14.
El evento es gratuito y abierto al público en general. Favor de inscribirse formalmente al congreso.
Para más información, visite here.
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Join the eleventh Conference on Indigenous Languages of Latin America from October 15 to 17, 2026, held by the University of Texas at Austin.
On October 16, 2026, at 2:30pm, Mandana Seyfeddinipur, Kelsey Neely and Mary Swift will give their talk “Solo nos demoró 25 años: Haciendo que ELAR sea accesible para Latinoamérica” in Mesa 14.
The conference is free and open to all. Please register.
For more information, visit here.
Congratulations to our director, Mandana Seyfeddinipur, on being appointed Honorary Doctor by the Faculty of Languages at Uppsala University in 2027
The distinction recognizes Mandana’s outstanding contributions to the documentation and preservation of endangered languages, as well as her efforts for advancing the field of language documentation and making linguistic resources accessible for future research through her work at the Endangered Languages Archive (ELAR) and the Endangered Languages Documentation Programme (ELDP). Read more about the appointment at Uppsala University here.
ELDP Archiving Fellowships
ELDP is excited to announce a new grant type for ELDP alumni.The grant offers focused time in Berlin to complete, improve, and deposit documentary collections for long term preservation and access at the Endangered Languages Archive (ELAR). The Fellowship covers travel and accommodation in Berlin for up to 4 weeks to work with the ELDP and ELAR team.
Find the call for applications here.
Apply here.
ELDP Rapid Grant
Are you planning to apply for an ELDP grant but need conduct preliminary wordlist elicitation to determine genealogical classification? Do you need to establish contact with the an uncontacted community? The new ELDP Rapid Grant is our new funding scheme for these purposes.
Find out more here and apply here.
Die Zeit Article
The article explores why and how languages are forgotten, and why it is important to preserve them in archives like ELAR. Read the article by Arnfried Schenk in Die Zeit (issue 08/2026): Verstummt und vergessen
Article by ELDP and ELAR staff on data quality and data maturity
Explore different aspects of data quality and data maturity for annotated data and recommendations for audiovisual and derived formats in the article by Vera Ferreira, Hanna Hedeland and Kelsey Neely
Learn more and access the paper here.
Family Matters exhibition in Berlin
The ethnological museum in the Humboldt Forum in Berlin has dedicated a video installation space (room 203) with seven screens to endangered languages communities and their views of Family. The exhibition “Family Matters” features communities talking about family and their lives in a video installation at the Humboldt Forum. The exhibition shows films by the Waata (Kenya), Dza (Nigeria), Nokuku (Vanuatu), Moken (Thailand), Lhop (Bhutan) and Ka'apor (Brazil) all collected together with ELDP grantees. Learn more here
Tutorials for Language Documentation and Archiving now available on YouTube
ELDP has launched a new YouTube channel, Tutorials for Language Documentation and Archiving.
Make sure to subscribe to the channel to be notified when new videos are added!