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How a hostel in Prague turned into a growing collection of the world’s voices.

Inspired by “The Great Language Game”, LingYourLanguage is a collaborative effort to bring the world’s languages to a wider audience in an entertaining, engaging way. The project began at a hostel in the heart of Prague, where visitors started contributing their own languages to the collection. It soon spread to family, friends, acquaintances, friends of friends, and beyond — linking people and cultures together.

We hope to create a collection of all the different languages, varieties, dialects, accents and linguistic peculiarities that are such an important part of cultures around the world. The game is not for profit and has no advertising, so every donation goes straight towards new features and expanding its educational potential.

Thanks to our users, the game now has:

  • Over 2,500 samples in nearly 100 languages and 200 dialects from around the world
  • Information on every language, available both in-game and on a dedicated Learn page
  • User profiles to track your high scores, compare with other players, and level up from “Language Enthusiast” to “Omniglot”
  • Significantly improved game logic, with multiple difficulty levels for everyone
  • Two different multiplayer modes, each for up to four players

We’re still hard at work on the continual addition of languages and dialects, more detailed information, more in-depth articles, and collaboration with professors and organizations around the world to provide authentic, high-quality audio — and much more.

We hope you’ll help LingYourLanguage reach its full potential — and we hope you enjoy the game!

— Raphael & Ulvi

We’d like to thank everyone who has helped us with LingYourLanguage in so many ways (listed in alphabetical order by surname).

Professors & academics

  • Prof. Jordi AguadéUniversidad de Cádiz
  • Prof. Dr. Jan Beth-SawoceSurayt-Aramaic Online Project
  • Prof. Maciej KlimiukHeidelberg University
  • Prof. Catherine MillerIREMAM — Institut de recherches et d’études sur les mondes arabes et musulmans
  • Prof. Yaron MatrasUniversity of Manchester
  • Prof. Stephen ProcházkaUniversität Wien
  • Prof. Dr. Shabo TalayHeidelberg University

Organizations & communities

  • Yaron Matras’s Archive of Endangered and Smaller Languages
  • FAR LOMBARD (associazion per la lengua lombarda)
  • Nipivut (Montrealmiut Community Radio)
  • Multilingual Manchester

Partners

  • University of Manchester
  • Multilingual Manchester
  • Universidad de Cádiz
  • Heidelberg University
  • Universität Wien