What is Language Cloud?

Short Answer #

Language Cloud is a community-controlled language revitalization platform that helps Indigenous communities organize, preserve, grow, teach, publish, and prepare language resources for future generations.

Expanded Answer #

Language Cloud was created to solve a common challenge. Many communities possess valuable language resources such as:

• Recordings
• Stories
• Dictionaries
• Educational materials
• Historical archives
• Cultural resources

Unfortunately, these materials are often scattered across multiple locations and systems. Language Cloud helps bring these resources together into a single, organized environment where they can be:

• Preserved
• Managed
• Searched
• Shared
• Expanded
• Reused

The platform supports both current revitalization needs and future opportunities, including speech technologies, publishing initiatives, and artificial intelligence applications. Language Cloud should be viewed as language infrastructure rather than simply software.