Wikitongues
FounderFrederico Andrade, Daniel Bögre Udell, Lindie Botes[1]
TypeNon-profit
Volunteers
1500
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.[3][4]

Oral histories

Wikitongues contributors in Montreal during Wikimania 2017

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 Kickstarter[1] and the organization was able to raise US$52,716 with the help of 429 backers. Currently the software is under development.[8][9]

Licenses

All the videos are released under CC BY-NC 4.0 license. Recently, another option to release the video under CC BY-SA 4.0 has also been introduced.[10]

Mission

In 2019, Daniel Bögre Udell, one of the Wikitongues founders, gave a talk on TED Residency stage about the project and its mission, called "How to save a language from extinction."[11]

References

  1. ^ a b 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". 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. Archived from the original on December 9, 2018. Retrieved 2018-05-03.
  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. ^ Wikitongues. "Wikitongues Licensing". Wikitongues. Retrieved 20 August 2017.
  11. ^ Daniel Bögre Udell (21 November 2019). "How to save a language from extinction". TED.com. Retrieved 2021-09-30.

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