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Wikitongues

Wikitongues is an American non-profit organization registered in the state of New York. It aims to sustain and promote all the languages in the world. It was founded by Frederico Andrade, Daniel Bögre Udell and Lindie Botes in 2014.

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Wikitongues
FounderFrederico Andrade, Daniel Bögre Udell, Lindie Botes1
TypeNon-profit
Volunteers1500
Websitewikitongues.org

Wikitongues is an American non-profit organization registered in the state of New York. It aims to sustain and promote all the languages in the world.2 It was founded by Frederico Andrade, Daniel Bögre Udell and Lindie Botes in 2014.34

Oral histories

Wikitongues contributors in Montreal during Wikimania 2017 source ↗

By May 2016, Wikitongues had recorded around 329 videos in over 200 languages.5 As of 2018, they have recorded more than 350 languages, or 5% of the languages in the world.6 They also have 15% of their videos subtitled through the organization Amara, formerly known as Universal Subtitles, which is a web-based non-profit project that hosts and allows user-subtitled video to be accessed and created.

Poly

Poly is open-source software built to share and learn languages.7 The project was supported on Kickstarter1 and the organization was able to raise US$52,716 with the help of 429 backers. Currently the software is under development.89

Methods

Wikitongues share its methods and tools online, such as the Language Sustainability Toolkit.10

References

References

  1. Kate Groetzinger (February 12, 2016). "Anyone can contribute to this dictionary of the world's dying languages". Quartz. Retrieved 14 May 2016.
  2. Daniel Bögre Udell (2020). "Wikitongues.org". Wikitongues. Retrieved 22 September 2020.
  3. "Wikitongues Press Release". Archived from the original on 30 April 2016. Retrieved 13 May 2016.
  4. "Wikitongues: Biography". Kickstarter. Retrieved 15 May 2016.
  5. Wikitongues (2016-11-04). "Hello from Wikitongues". Wikitongues. Retrieved 2018-02-20.
  6. Nina Strochlic (2018-04-16). "The Race to Save the World's Disappearing Languages". National Geographic. Retrieved 2018-05-03.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  7. Jared Goyette (February 23, 2016). "This nonprofit wants to build a tool to share and document all the world's languages". PRI. Retrieved 13 May 2016.
  8. Wikitongues. "Share and learn every language in the world". Kickstarter. Retrieved 13 May 2016.
  9. "Poly". GitHub. Retrieved 2 July 2023.
  10. Daigneault, Anna Luisa; Bögre Udell, Daniel; Tcherneshoff, Kristen; D. S. Anderson, Gregory (2022). "The Language Sustainability Toolkit" (PDF). Wikitongues.org.

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