Portal:Wikilang

Welcome to Wikilang

the languages resources project of Wikiversity.

Part of the School of Language Studies

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Wikilang is a free languages resources project with the goal to document, record, share and teach all languages, including endangered and extinct languages. Wikiversity currently has resources on 89 different languages!

Featured resources

Breton language

Breton is spoken in North-Western France and is one of the few surviving Celtic languages, which dominated Europe over 2000 years ago.

Mi'kmaq language

Mi'kmaq or Mi'gmaq, also called Micmac, is a language spoken by the Aboriginal nation of the same name in Eastern Canada and United States.

Languages

See the List of all languages on Wikiversity to access the learning resources for a specific language.

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Click on a continent

Click on a continent to get to a portal of languages of this continent.

News

Selected worldwide news about languages:

Livonian: The Finnic language Livonian died out as the last speaker, Grizelda Kristina, died at the age of 103.
Yurok: Down to only 6 speakers at one point, the Yurok language is now taught in Northern California schools. Now, over 300 people have at least a basic knowledge of Yurok. Los Angeles Times
Cromarty fishfolk: The last speaker of the Scots dialect named Cromarty fishfolk, Bobby Hogg, passed away in October 2012; with him died the dialect. CNN
Bo: The last speaker of the Bo language, Boa Sr, died in early February 2010, bringing with her a 65,000-year-old language to the grave. Mail Online

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