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{{Infobox Organization
| name         = Project Lingua
| image        = Gv-lingua-logo-dark-1200 - Copy.png
| size         = 200px
| formation    = Dec 2006
| area_served  = Global
| purpose      = Open lines of communication with non-english speaking bloggers by translating articles from Global Voices Online
| website      = [https://globalvoices.org/lingua globalvoices.org/lingua]
|language      = Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Aymara, Bangla, Bulgarian, Burmese, Catalan, Czech, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Danish, Dutch, Esperanto, Farsi, French, Filipino, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Kurdish, Korean, Malagasy, Macedonian, Odia, Pashto, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tetum, Turkish, Urdu
| parent_organization = Global Voices Online
}}

'''Project Lingua,''' or just '''Lingua''' is an online translation community formed in the end of 2006<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://translationjournal.net/journal/45global.htm|title=Translation and Participatory Media: Experiences from Global Voices|website=translationjournal.net|access-date=2017-12-27}}</ref> with the goal of translating articles from the global citizen media project Global Voices Online from [[Social:English language|English]] into other languages, opening lines of distributed<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://jilliancyork.com/2008/12/16/on-lingua-and-distributed-translation/|title=On Lingua and distributed translation|date=2008-12-16|work=Jillian C. York|access-date=2017-12-27|language=en-US}}</ref> communication between bloggers across the world. The project currently translates into tens<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://globalvoices.org/lingua/lingua-sites/|title=Global Voices ·   Complete List of Lingua Sites|work=Global Voices|access-date=2017-12-27|language=en}}</ref> of different languages, and incorporates an active team of hundreds of volunteer translators and translation editors. Along with the [[Social:Cucumis (website)|Cucumis]] project and the Wikipedia's own translation projects in every language, such as the Wikipedia:ECHO, Lingua is considered one of the largest volunteer-based online translation communities in the world.<ref>Solana Larsen, "[https://globalvoices.org/2008/11/15/lingua-the-making-of-a-global-online-translation-project/ Lingua: The Making of a Global Online Translation Project], ''Global Voices Online'', Nov. 16, 2008.</ref><ref>Chris Salzberg, "[http://accurapid.com/journal/45global.htm Translation and Participatory Media: Experiences from Global Voices] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100421090539/http://accurapid.com/Journal/45global.htm |date=2010-04-21 }}," ''Translation Journal'', July 2008.</ref><ref>Ethan Zuckerman, "[http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2006/12/16/language-and-translation-on-global-voices/ Language and translation on Global Voices]," ''My heart's in Accra'', December 16, 2006.</ref><ref>Leslie Berlin, "[https://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/business/17proto.html A Web That Speaks Your Language]," ''The New York Times'', May 16, 2009.</ref>

==Origin of the Project==

Lingua began as a community-based initiative by Taiwanese blogger Portnoy Zheng,<ref>https://globalvoices.org/2008/02/10/portnoy-zheng-the-blogger-who-inspired-the-world-to-talk-together/</ref> who started translating Global Voices articles into [[Social:Chinese language|Chinese]] as early as September, 2005.<ref>Paula Góes, "[https://www.globalvoices.org/2008/02/10/portnoy-zheng-the-blogger-who-inspired-the-world-to-talk-together Portnoy Zheng: The blogger who inspired the world to talk together]," ''Global Voices Online'', February 10th, 2008.</ref> This initial idea became a project of its own at the Global Voices Summit in December 2006, where it was given the name "Lingua".

The first official Lingua sites, launched by June 2007, were [[Social:Chinese language|Chinese]] (both Simplified and Traditional), [[Social:Bengali language|Bangla]], [[Social:Persian language|Farsi]], [[Social:Spanish language|Spanish]], [[Social:Portuguese language|Portuguese]] and [[Social:French language|French]]. The project has since grown rapidly in size and scope. Global Voices is translated in all the top [[Social:Languages used on the Internet|languages used on the internet]] but also include under-represent and indigenous languages, such as [[Social:Aymara language|Aymara]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://ay.globalvoices.org/|title=Global Voices Aymarata · Uraqpachat Medios ciudadano-mp lurat isturyanaka|work=Global Voices Aymarata|access-date=2017-12-27}}</ref>.Translators apply via the Translation Application Form.<ref>https://globalvoices.org/lingua/translator-application-form/</ref>

==Collaborations==

Lingua has content-sharing/partnerships (formal and informal) with news sites and other online organizations, such as:

* Arabic: Al Jazeera Talk<ref>http://www.aljazeeratalk.net/english/index.php</ref>
* Bangla: Biborton Bangla<ref>http://bn.biborton.com/</ref> (news/entertainment site, literary magazine)<ref>Jasim Sarker, "[http://www.groundreport.com/Business/Bangladesh-to-launch-first-blog-site-on-Citizen-Jo/2934270 First blog site on Citizen Journalism in Bangladesh], ''GroundReport'', February 10, 2011.</ref>
* Chinese: China Times,  Memedia ("Strawberry")<ref>http://memedia.cn/</ref> (news site), Peopo<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.peopo.org/|title=PeoPo 公民新聞|website=www.peopo.org}}</ref> (Taiwanese citizen news site hosted by the Taiwan Broadcasting Service)<ref>"2008 PeoPo Citizen Journalism Forum to prospect the vision of citizen journalism in Taiwan", ''Wikinews'', April 26, 2008.</ref>
* Italian: Agoravox Italia,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.agoravox.it/|title=AgoraVox Italia|website=www.agoravox.it}}</ref> Rainews24,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rainews24.it/|title=Rai News: le ultime notizie in tempo reale – news, attualità e aggiornamenti|website=www.rainews24.it}}</ref> La Stampa<ref>Bernardo Parrella, "[https://globalvoices.org/2010/03/09/voci-globali-global-voices-and-la-stampa/ Voci Globali: Global Voices and La Stampa], ''Global Voices Online'', March 3, 2010.</ref>
* French: Rue 89, [[Social:Cucumis (website)|Cucumis]], Rezo.net<ref>{{cite web|url=http://rezo.net/|title=Rezo.net - Le portail des copains|website=rezo.net}}</ref>
* Portuguese: Mozambican newspaper A Verdade<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.verdade.co.mz/|title=@Verdade Online|website=www.verdade.co.mz}}</ref><ref>Paula Góes, "[https://globalvoices.org/2011/03/04/mozambique-gv-partnership/ Mozambique: Global Voices and @Verdade Newspaper], ''Global Voices Online'', March 4, 2011.</ref>
* Spanish: Canal Solidario,<ref>http://www.canalsolidario.org/</ref><ref>Juan Arellano, "[https://globalvoices.org/2008/04/10/global-voices-in-spanish-and-canal-solidario/ Global Voices in Spanish and Canal Solidario]," ''Global Voices Online'', April 10th, 2008.</ref> Periodismo Ciudadano,<ref>http://www.periodismociudadano.com/</ref> El Colombiano<ref>Juan Arellano, "[https://globalvoices.org/2011/09/27/agreement-between-global-voices-and-el-colombiano/ New Partnership Between Global Voices and El Colombiano]," ''Global Voices Online'', September 27th, 2011.</ref>

Lingua has also partnered with like minded organisations to provide translations. In August 2012, Lingua launched a collaborative effort to translate the [[Social:Declaration of Internet Freedom|Declaration of Internet Freedom]]<ref>{{cite news |title=Global: A Marathon to Translate the Declaration of Internet Freedom |author=Paula Goes |url=https://globalvoices.org/2012/07/26/translation-declaration-internet-freedom/ |work=Global Voices Online |date=26 July 2012 |accessdate=10 August 2012}}</ref> providing the text in 31 languages.

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://globalvoices.org/lingua Lingua site]
*[http://en.flossmanuals.net/open-translation-tools OpenTranslationTools: Global Voices Lingua]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20090816225110/http://blip.tv/file/1070249/ GVsummit08 Budapest: Portnoy about Translation and the Multilingual Web]
*{{sq icon}} [https://sq.globalvoices.org/ Global Voices in Albanian]
*{{am icon}} [https://am.globalvoices.org/ Global Voices in Amharic]
*{{ar icon}} [https://ar.globalvoices.org/ Global Voices in Arabic]
*{{ay icon}} [https://aym.globalvoices.org/ Global Voices in Aymara]
*{{bn icon}} [https://bn.globalvoices.org/ Global Voices in Bangla]
*{{bg icon}} [https://bg.globalvoices.org/ Global Voices in Bulgarian]
*{{my icon}} [https://my.globalvoices.org/ Global Voices in Burmese]
*{{ca icon}} [https://ca.globalvoices.org/ Global Voices in Catalan]
*{{Cz icon}} [https://cs.globalvoices.org Global Voices in Czech]
*{{zh icon}} [https://zhs.globalvoices.org/ Global Voices in Chinese (Simplified)]
*{{zh icon}} [https://zht.globalvoices.org/ Global Voices in Chinese (Traditional)]
*{{da icon}} [https://da.globalvoices.org/ Global Voices in Danish]
*{{nl icon}} [https://nl.globalvoices.org/ Global Voices in Dutch]
*{{eo icon}} [https://eo.globalvoices.org Global Voices in Esperanto]
*{{en icon}} [https://www.globalvoices.org Global Voices Online in English]
*{{fa icon}} [https://fa.globalvoices.org/ Global Voices in Farsi]
*{{tl icon}} [https://fil.globalvoices.org/ Global Voices in Filipino]
*{{fr icon}} [https://fr.globalvoices.org/ Global Voices in French]
*{{de icon}} [https://de.globalvoices.org/ Global Voices in German]
*{{el icon}} [https://el.globalvoices.org/ Global Voices in Greek]
*{{he icon}} [https://he.globalvoices.org/ Global Voices in Hebrew]
*{{hi icon}} [https://hi.globalvoices.org Global Voices in Hindi]
*{{hu icon}} [https://hu.globalvoices.org/ Global Voices in Hungarian]
*{{id icon}} [https://id.globalvoices.org/ Global Voices in Indonesian]
*{{it icon}} [https://it.globalvoices.org/ Global Voices in Italian]
*{{jp icon}} [https://jp.globalvoices.org/ Global Voices in Japanese]
*{{km icon}} [https://km.globalvoices.org Global Voices in Khmer]
*{{ko icon}} [https://ko.globalvoices.org/ Global Voices in Korean]
*{{mk icon}} [https://mk.globalvoices.org/ Global Voices in Macedonian]
*{{mg icon}} [https://mg.globalvoices.org/ Global Voices in Malagasy]
*(In Nubian) [https://xnz.globalvoices.org/ Global Voices in Nubian]
*{{pl icon}} [https://pl.globalvoices.org/ Global Voices in Polish]
*{{pt icon}} [https://pt.globalvoices.org/ Global Voices in Portuguese]
*{{ru icon}} [https://ru.globalvoices.org/ Global Voices in Russian]
*{{sr icon}} [https://sr.globalvoices.org/ Global Voices in Serbian ]
*{{sp icon}} [https://es.globalvoices.org/ Global Voices in Spanish]
*{{sw icon}} [https://sw.globalvoices.org/ Global Voices in Swahili]
*{{sv icon}} [https://sv.globalvoices.org/ Global Voices in Swedish]
*{{tr icon}} [https://tr.globalvoices.org/ Global Voices in Turkish]
*{{ur icon}} [https://ur.globalvoices.org/ Global Voices in Urdu]

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