Workshop: Language and the Body

ELDP grantees Pierpaolo di Carlo and Song U Kim will run a workshop titled Language and the Body: The Body as both Object and Tool of Linguistic Research at the University of Naples “L’Orientale” on 22 May 2026. The event will take place in the Antisala degli Specchi.

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.
Apply here.

ELDP Rapid Grant

Are you planning to apply for an ELDP grant but need to establish contact with the community? Do you need to conduct preliminary wordlist elicitation to determine genealogical classification, or to assess the feasibility of a documentation project? 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

Ciclo de capacitaciones en documentación lingüística 2026

ELDP ofrece una serie de capacitaciones en línea sobre teoría y métodos de documentación lingüística del 5 marzo al 21 mayo de 2026 en directo a través de Zoom. Las sesiones en línea tendrán lugar los jueves de 16:00 a 18:00 UTC. El idioma de instrucción es el español. El ciclo de capacitaciones tiene 25 plazas disponibles. Ciclo de capacitaciones en documentación lingüística

Summer school: Language Science Meets Linguistic Diversity in Berlin, Germany

The Endangered Languages Documentation Programme (ELDP) and the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin (HU-Berlin) Institut für deutsche Sprache und Linguistik are offering an in person summer school in Linguistic Diversity and Language Science in Berlin, Germany. The school will take place from Monday, August 31st through Friday, September 4th, 2026. Learn more about the summer school here.

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.

Language Documentation and Archiving Conference 2026

We are thrilled to announce that the next Language Documentation and Archiving conference will take place in September 2026 in Berlin, Germany with online participation options. For more information about the conference visit the conference website.

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!