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Wikitongues

Wikitongues is an American non-profit organization registered in New York. Its goal is to document all the languages in the world.[1] It was founded by Frederico Andrade, Daniel Bogre Udell and Lindie Botes in 2014.[2][3]

Wikitongues
TypeNon-profit
Websitewikitongues.org

Oral histories

Wikitongues contributors in Montreal during Wikimania 2017.

By May 2016, 329 videos in over 200 languages were recorded for Wikitongues.[4] As of 2018, the amount of languages increased to 350 languages, or 5% of the languages in the world, with plans to increase the amount of languages to 1000 in the coming years.[5]

Poly

Poly is an open-source software program designed to be used to share and learn languages.[6] Wikitongues earned $52,716 USD combined from 429 backers on Kickstarter,[7] which helped Poly be developed. Poly is currently under development.[8]

Licenses

All videos recorded for Wikitongues are released under a CC-by-NC 4.0 license. It was recently made possible to use a CC-by-SA 4.0 license instead.[9]

References

  1. ↑ Judith Duffy. Dinnae haud yer wheesht ... team collating all languages on planet lands in Scotland (28 June 2014)Herald Scotland. Retrieved 9 May 2020.
  2. ↑ Wikitongues Press Release. Retrieved 9 May 2020.
  3. ↑ Wikitongues: BiographyKickstarter. Retrieved 9 May 2020.
  4. ↑ Wikitongues. Hello from Wikitongues. Wikitongues (2016-11-04). Retrieved 9 May 2020.
  5. ↑ Nina Strochlic. The Race to Save the World's Disappearing Languages (2018-04-16)National Geographic. Retrieved 9 May 2020.
  6. ↑ Jared Goyette. This nonprofit wants to build a tool to share and document all the world’s languages (February 23, 2016)PRI. Retrieved 9 May 2020.
  7. ↑ Kate Groetzinger. Anyone can contribute to this dictionary of the world’s dying languages (February 12, 2016)Quartz. Retrieved 9 May 2020.
  8. ↑ Wikitongues. Share and learn every language in the worldKickstarter. Retrieved 9 May 2020.
  9. ↑ Wikitongues. Wikitongues LicensingWikitongues. Retrieved 9 May 2020.

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