Wikitongues


Wikitongues is an American non-profit organization registered in the state of New York. It aims to document all the languages in the world. It was founded by Frederico Andrade, Daniel Bogre 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.

Poly

Poly is an open source software built to share and learn languages. The project was supported on Kickstarter and the organization was able to raise $52,716 USD 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.

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