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Help languages grow beyond a wordlist.

Currently, 476 of the 2,317+ languages on record have only minimal documentation. Your support builds the tools contributors use to record these varieties comprehensively, and the archive that keeps the result.

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Where your money goes

Getting documentation in
Importers for the formats language data is stuck in: spreadsheets, field notes, PDFs, and decades-old software nobody runs any more.
Tools built around the speaker
Transcription and review where the speaker leads and the model only assists once it has earned that in their variety. Building that is the slow part.
Publishing it as something usable
Schema, permissions and the pipeline that turn a documented language into pages, search, and a feed other software can read.
Keeping it retrievable
Storage, hosting, versioning and migration. An archive nobody can search in twenty years preserved nothing.

Help languages grow beyond a wordlist.

Where your money goes

Getting documentation in

Tools built around the speaker

Publishing it as something usable

Keeping it retrievable