The Interdisciplinary Centre for Social and Language Documentation (CIDLeS) is a non-profit institution founded in January 2010 in Minde (Portugal) by a group of national and international researchers. CIDLeS aims at improving and deepening research in two linguistic areas: language documentation and linguistic typology. Besides the documentation, study and dissemination of European endangered and minority languages CIDLeS is also engaged in the development of language technologies for scientific and didactic work in lesser-used languages.
CIDLeS has three research groups (CIDLeS Media Lab, Language Documentation and Language Typology and Language Revitalization) whose projects are interrelated with the aim of fostering interdisciplinary research.