Wikitongues

Wikitongues
Wikitongues Logo
Founder Frederico Andrade, Daniel Bogre Udell, Lindie Botes[1]
Type Non-profit
Volunteers
100
Website wikitongues.org

Wikitongues is a non-profit organization registered in New York, USA. It aims to document all the languages in the world.[2] It was founded by Frederico Andrade, Daniel Bogre Udell and Lindie Botes in 2014.[3][4]

Oral histories

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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 every language in the world.[6]

Poly

Poly is an open source software built to share and learn languages.[7] The project was supported on Kickstarter[1] and the organization was able to raise $52,716 USD with the help of 429 backers. Currently the software is under development.[8]

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.[9]

References

  1. 1 2 Kate Groetzinger (February 12, 2016). "Anyone can contribute to this dictionary of the world's dying languages". Quartz. Retrieved 14 May 2016.
  2. ↑ Judith Duffy (28 June 2014). "Dinnae haud yer wheesht ... team collating all languages on planet lands in Scotland". Herald Scotland. Retrieved 14 May 2016.
  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. 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. ↑ Wikitongues. "Wikitongues Licensing". Wikitongues. Retrieved 20 August 2017.
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