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Tatoeba
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Also known as Tatoeba.org

Tatoeba is a free collection of example sentences with translations geared towards foreign language learners. It is available in more than 400 languages. Its name comes from the Japanese phrase , meaning 'for example'. It is written and maintained by a community of volunteers through a model of open collaboration. Individual contributors are known as "Tatoebans". It is run by Association Tatoeba, a French non-profit organization funded through donations.

Key facts

Website.name
Tatoeba
Website.logo
Tatoeba Logo.svg
Website.logo_size
125px
Website.logo_caption
The logo of Tatoeba
Website.screenshot
Tatoeba.org English screenshot 2021.png
Website.screenshot_size
250px
Website.collapsible
1
Website.commercial
No
Website.type
Online parallel corpora
Website.registration
Optional
Website.language_count
57 languages of the interface; content in 426 languages (February 2025)
Website.country_of_origin
France
Website.owner
Association Tatoeba
Website.founder
Trang Ho
Website.key_people
Allan Simon
Website.content_license
CC BY (some sentences under CC0), audio varies
Website.launch_date
2006
Website.current_status
Online

via Wikipedia infobox

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Encyclopedic overview

19 sections
Contents
  • History and development
  • Openness
  • Use
  • Contribution
  • Governance
  • Languages
  • Operation
  • Access to content
  • Licensing
  • Offline use
  • Software development tools
  • Related projects
  • Second-language acquisition
  • Regional or minority languages
  • Constructed languages
  • Language technology
  • See also
  • References
  • External links

Tatoeba is a free collection of example sentences with translations geared towards foreign language learners. It is available in more than 400 languages. Its name comes from the Japanese phrase , meaning 'for example'. It is written and maintained by a community of volunteers through a model of open collaboration. Individual contributors are known as "Tatoebans". It is run by Association Tatoeba, a French non-profit organization funded through donations.

== History and development ==

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tatoeba” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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