Wikitongues
{{short description|Non-profit organisation promoting all the languages in the world}}
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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.{{cite web | url= https://wikitongues.org/ | title= Wikitongues.org |author= Daniel Bögre Udell | date= 2020 | publisher = Wikitongues| accessdate=22 September 2020}} It was founded by Frederico Andrade, Daniel Bögre Udell and Lindie Botes in 2014.{{cite web | url=http://wikitongues.org/press/ | title=Wikitongues Press Release | accessdate=13 May 2016}}{{cite web | url=https://www.kickstarter.com/profile/wikitongues | title=Wikitongues: Biography | publisher=Kickstarter | accessdate=15 May 2016}}
Oral histories
File:Odia_Wikimedia_Usergroup_Kiosk_01.jpg during Wikimania 2017]]
By May 2016, Wikitongues had recorded around 329 videos in over 200 languages.{{Cite web|url=https://medium.com/wikitongues/hello-from-wikitongues-e7ad62fa3bcb|title=Hello from Wikitongues|last=Wikitongues|date=2016-11-04|website=Wikitongues|access-date=2018-02-20}} As of 2018, they have recorded more than 350 languages, or 5% of the languages in the world.{{Cite web|url=https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/04/saving-dying-disappearing-languages-wikitongues-culture/|archive-url=https://archive.today/20181209214127/https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/04/saving-dying-disappearing-languages-wikitongues-culture/|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 9, 2018|title=The Race to Save the World's Disappearing Languages|publisher=National Geographic|author=Nina Strochlic|date=2018-04-16|access-date=2018-05-03}} 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.{{cite web | url=http://www.pri.org/stories/2016-02-23/nonprofit-wants-build-tool-share-and-document-all-world-s-languages | title=This nonprofit wants to build a tool to share and document all the world's languages | publisher=PRI | date=February 23, 2016 | accessdate=13 May 2016 | author=Jared Goyette}} The project was supported on Kickstarter{{cite web | url=http://qz.com/615467/anyone-can-contribute-to-this-dictionary-of-the-worlds-dying-languages/ | title=Anyone can contribute to this dictionary of the world's dying languages |author= Kate Groetzinger| date=February 12, 2016| publisher=Quartz | accessdate=14 May 2016}} and the organization was able to raise US$52,716 with the help of 429 backers. Currently the software is under development.{{cite web | url=https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wikitongues/poly-share-and-learn-every-language-in-the-world | title=Share and learn every language in the world | publisher=Kickstarter | accessdate=13 May 2016 | author=Wikitongues}}{{cite web | url=https://github.com/wikitongues/poly | title=Poly | website=GitHub | accessdate=2 July 2023}}
References
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Further media
- {{cite web |title=Saving Languages From Extinction |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcMkmEzUE18 |website=Great Big Story |publisher=YouTube |date=17 April 2019}}
- {{cite web |last1=Elmasry |first1=Faiza |title=Wikitongues Seeks to Save World's Dying Languages |url=https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/wikitongues-seeks-to-save-world-s-dying-languages/4783745.html |website=Voice of America |language=en |date=12 February 2019}}