Organization:Wikitongues
 Wikitongues logo | |
| Founder | Frederico Andrade, Daniel Bögre Udell, Lindie Botes[1] |
|---|---|
| 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.[2] It was founded by Frederico Andrade, Daniel Bögre Udell and Lindie Botes in 2014.[3][4]
Oral histories
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
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Kate Groetzinger (February 12, 2016). "Anyone can contribute to this dictionary of the world's dying languages". Quartz. http://qz.com/615467/anyone-can-contribute-to-this-dictionary-of-the-worlds-dying-languages/. Retrieved 14 May 2016.
- ↑ Daniel Bögre Udell (2020). "Wikitongues.org". Wikitongues. https://wikitongues.org/. Retrieved 22 September 2020.
- ↑ "Wikitongues Press Release". http://wikitongues.org/press/. Retrieved 13 May 2016.
- ↑ "Wikitongues: Biography". Kickstarter. https://www.kickstarter.com/profile/wikitongues. Retrieved 15 May 2016.
- ↑ Wikitongues (2016-11-04). "Hello from Wikitongues". https://medium.com/wikitongues/hello-from-wikitongues-e7ad62fa3bcb.
- ↑ Nina Strochlic (2018-04-16). "The Race to Save the World's Disappearing Languages". National Geographic. https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/04/saving-dying-disappearing-languages-wikitongues-culture/.
- ↑ Jared Goyette (February 23, 2016). "This nonprofit wants to build a tool to share and document all the world's languages". PRI. http://www.pri.org/stories/2016-02-23/nonprofit-wants-build-tool-share-and-document-all-world-s-languages. Retrieved 13 May 2016.
- ↑ Wikitongues. "Share and learn every language in the world". Kickstarter. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wikitongues/poly-share-and-learn-every-language-in-the-world. Retrieved 13 May 2016.
- ↑ "Poly". https://github.com/wikitongues/poly. Retrieved 2 July 2023.
- ↑ Wikitongues. "Wikitongues Licensing". Wikitongues. https://wikitongues.org/licensing. Retrieved 20 August 2017.
- ↑ Daniel Bögre Udell (21 November 2019). "How to save a language from extinction" (in en). https://www.ted.com/talks/daniel_bogre_udell_how_to_save_a_language_from_extinction.
Further media
- "Saving Languages From Extinction". YouTube. 17 April 2019. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcMkmEzUE18.
- Elmasry, Faiza (12 February 2019). "Wikitongues Seeks to Save World's Dying Languages" (in en). https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/wikitongues-seeks-to-save-world-s-dying-languages/4783745.html.
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