/living-dictionaries

Speeding the availability of language resources for endangered languages. Tools such as this have the power to shift how we think about endangered languages. Rather than perceiving them as being antiquated, difficult to learn and on the brink of vanishing, we see them as modern, easily accessible for learning online in text and audio formats.

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Living Dictionaries

A mobile-first community focused dictionary-building web app built by Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages.

Tech stack

Firebase is used for:

  • Authentication
  • Cloud Firestore
  • Storage

These functions are being transitioned to Supabase with the exception of Storage, images will remain in GCP. Supabase may support this directly in the future.

Contributing

  • Choose an already approved task from the Development Roadmap or create an issue to propose a new feature (please await discussion before creating a pull request).
  • Read CONTRIBUTING and then move on to all the other pages under "Docs" in the Kitbook to understand how to set up a dev environment, repo conventions, commit conventions, and more.