Can you help us grow?
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45
Languages Revitalized
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838
Languages Documented
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178
Nations Impacted
What Our Impact Looks Like
Through our Language Revitalization Fellowship, we help language activists identify and implement their communities’ linguistic needs, supplementing their work with micro-grants, in-kind services, and volunteer labor. Wikitongues fellows grow their languages with arts and culture programs, mother-tongue education, and technology.
Case Studies
Here are some of the impactful projects developed by our fellows.
Tiöma fum Dökter
PolandIn 2022, we helped Tiöma preserve cultural and linguistic resources in the critically-endangered Wymysorys language. He recorded X hours of mother-tongue interviews with Y elders from his community, safeguarding their cultural knowledge and building a foundation for educational materials in the language.
Jacqueline Brixey
United StatesIn 2023, we supported Jacqueline's work expanding AI tools to her language, Choctaw. So far, she has strengthened one of just two Choctaw corpora, improved English-Choctaw machine translation, and built the first bilingual chatbots, which have been shown to advance language learning. In 2024, Jacqueline earned her Ph.D in computer science.
Bivuti Chakma
BangladeshIn 2023, we worked with Bivuti to launch an online language school for his mother tongue, the under-resourced Chakma language. So far, he has secured Unicode recognition of his language’s Indigenous writing system, design the first-ever web font for his language, and used that font to create a mother-tongue version of Wikipedia.
Hangi Bulebe
DRCIn 2021, we helped Hangi establish a mother tongue research institute for the Kihunde language in Goma, D.R. Congo. Since then, his team has organized regular pop-up language classes for children, designed a curriculum for training new language teachers, published a comprehensive dictionary, and launched a mother tongue app for Android phones.
Hilario Poot Cahun
MexicoIn 2022, we backed Hilario’s effort to develop the first culturally grounded science curriculum in Yucatec Mayan, with an ecology focus. So far, he has published the first modern Mayan biology textbooks, tested the curriculum with teachers and parents from five Indigenous schools, and secured additional funding to grow his work.