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]

Wikitongues

Wikitongues logo
Founder	Frederico Andrade, Daniel Bögre Udell, Lindie Botes[1]
Type	Non-profit
Volunteers	1500
Website	wikitongues.org

Oral histories

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 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]