 Wikitongues logo | |
| Founder | Frederico Andrade, Daniel Bögre Udell, Lindie Botes |
|---|---|
| Type | Non-profit |
Volunteers | 1500 |
| Website | 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."
Oral histories※
By May 2016, "Wikitongues had recorded around 329 videos in over 200 languages." As of 2018, they have recorded more than 350 languages. Or 5% of the languages in the world. 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. The project was supported on Kickstarter and the organization was able to raise US$52,716 with the help of 429 backers. Currently the software is under development.
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.
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."
References※
- ^ Kate Groetzinger (February 12, 2016). "Anyone can contribute to this dictionary of the world's dying languages". Quartz. Retrieved 14 May 2016.
- ^ Daniel Bögre Udell (2020). "Wikitongues.org". Wikitongues. Retrieved 22 September 2020.
- ^ "Wikitongues Press Release". Retrieved 13 May 2016.
- ^ "Wikitongues: Biography". Kickstarter. Retrieved 15 May 2016.
- ^ Wikitongues (2016-11-04). "Hello from Wikitongues". Wikitongues. Retrieved 2018-02-20.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Wikitongues. "Share and learn every language in the world". Kickstarter. Retrieved 13 May 2016.
- ^ "Poly". GitHub. Retrieved 2 July 2023.
- ^ Wikitongues. "Wikitongues Licensing". Wikitongues. Retrieved 20 August 2017.
- ^ Daniel Bögre Udell (21 November 2019). "How to save a language from extinction". TED.com. Retrieved 2021-09-30.
Further media※
- "Saving Languages From Extinction". Great Big Story. YouTube. 17 April 2019.
- Elmasry, Faiza (12 February 2019). "Wikitongues Seeks to Save World's Dying Languages". Voice of America.
