WikiProject Language samples/ne

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The Wikipedia exists in many languages, in which we have articles about languages. We already have a lot of high quality wikipedia-articles about languages in which you can find information about the number of speakers, the vocabulary, stem and grammar of the language. But often one very natural question about a language is still left unanswered: "How does this language sound?".

This project seeks to change this. The goal of this project is to add a small sample of text spoken by a native speaker to all the articles about languages. The first article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is an appropriate choice for this, since it is translated in "all" languages of the world, public domain and of the right length to be included to a Wikipedia article.

This is an example of how this could look and sound for the Japanese language:

すべての人間(にんげん)は、生(う)まれながらにして自由(じゆう)であり、かつ、尊厳(そんげん)と権利(けんり)とについて平等(びょうどう)である。人間(にんげん)は、理性(りせい)と良心(りょうしん)とを授(さず)けられており、互(たが)いに同胞(どうほう)の精神(せいしん)をもって行動(こうどう)しなければならない。

subete no ningen wa, umarenagara ni shite jiyū de ari, katsu, songen to kenri to ni tsuite byōdō de aru. ningen wa, risei to ryōshin to o sazukerarete ori, tagai ni dōhō no seishin o motte kōdō shinakereba naranai.

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

Project-History

The project benefited of a Librivox-project, which also had the goal of creating recordings of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in over 50 languages. MichaelSchoenitzer imported those to commons, edited the files (see below) and extracted the first article. Through a project in the German Wikipedia they were included in the articles there.

Now it's time to make this into a international community-project – Wikipedians all around the globe can record the first article (or even the whole document) in their mother tongue, and the Wikipedia communities can add them to their language articles.

How-to create a recording

You want to read the first article of the UDHR in your mother tongue? Or you could convince some other person to do so? Awesome.

First: Get a microphone. Cheap Microphones have of course a lower sound quality, but if you follow the descriptions below even a cheap microphone will give reasonable results. If you live in a country with a local chapter you can ask there whether they can help you getting a microphone, for example in Germany you can borrow a microphone at Wikimedia Deutschland.

You can get the translation of the UDHR in your language at OHCHR.org. Find the first article and copy it to an editor or text program and format it in a way you can most comfortably read it. Before starting the recording read it two or three times loud and drink some water. If you misread a word simply read the word or group of words again and later cut out the wrong version.

Very important: when doing the recording make sure you also record at least 5 seconds of silence at the beginning or end of the recording – this is needed for editing. If you never did a recording, we recommend to use the free software Audacity. If you have a passive microphone (without power supply): activate the microphone boost and put the volume control to maximum. For an active microphone make sure the audio is not that high, that you reach the maximum gain when recording. After the recording, mark the part with silence you recoded and click on Effect -> Noise Reduction and click the Get Noise Profile button. After that select the whole recording (Edit > Select > All or the hotkey CTRL + A) and go again at Effect -> Noise Reduction and click the OK button. After that you can remove the silence and if there were any the misread sections by simply selecting them and pressing ⌦ Del. After that use from the Effect-Menu the filters Compressor, Leveller and Normalizer in this order. The default settings should be fine. When you are done, go on File -> Export audio, choose Ogg Vorbis as format and save the file.

Upload your recording to Wikimedia Commons, put it in the Category Audiorecordings of Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and add it on the listing below.

More tips for high-quality audio samples can be found in: A short guide to the recording of high-quality audio samples for Wiktionary

Project Status

So far we have recordings of the following languages:

भाषा	Full recording	Recording of Artikel 1	जर्मनेली विकिपिडिया
Afrikaans	सम्पन्न	सम्पन्न link 1	no
Arabic	सम्पन्न	सम्पन्न link 1	सम्पन्न
Acehnese	सम्पन्न	सम्पन्न link 1	सम्पन्न
Balinese	सम्पन्न	सम्पन्न link 1	??
Basque	Not done	सम्पन्न link 1	सम्पन्न
Brazilian Portuguese	सम्पन्न	सम्पन्न link 1	सम्पन्न
Buginese	सम्पन्न	सम्पन्न link 1	सम्पन्न
Bulgarian	सम्पन्न	सम्पन्न link 1	सम्पन्न
Catalan	सम्पन्न	सम्पन्न link 1	सम्पन्न
Chinese (Mandarin)	सम्पन्न, 2 Versions	सम्पन्न link 1
Czech	सम्पन्न	सम्पन्न link 1	सम्पन्न
Danish	सम्पन्न	सम्पन्न link 1	सम्पन्न
Dutch	सम्पन्न, 2 Versions	सम्पन्न link 1 link 2	सम्पन्न
English	सम्पन्न, 2 Versions	सम्पन्न link 1
Esperanto	सम्पन्न	सम्पन्न link 1	सम्पन्न
Faroese	सम्पन्न	सम्पन्न link 1	no
Finnish	सम्पन्न	सम्पन्न link 1	no
French	सम्पन्न, 3 Versions	सम्पन्न link 1 link 2 link 3	सम्पन्न
German	सम्पन्न	सम्पन्न link 1	no
Modern Greek	सम्पन्न	सम्पन्न link 1
Hebrew	सम्पन्न, 2 Versions	सम्पन्न link 1	सम्पन्न
Hindi	सम्पन्न	सम्पन्न link 1	no
Hungarian	सम्पन्न	सम्पन्न link 1	सम्पन्न
Indonesian	सम्पन्न, 2 Versions	सम्पन्न link 1 link 2	no
Italian	सम्पन्न, 2 Versions	सम्पन्न link 1	सम्पन्न
Japanese	सम्पन्न	सम्पन्न link 1 link 2	सम्पन्न
Javanese	सम्पन्न	सम्पन्न link 1	सम्पन्न
Javanese (Semarang)	सम्पन्न	ToDo	no article
Kapampangan	सम्पन्न	सम्पन्न link 1	सम्पन्न
Korean	सम्पन्न	सम्पन्न link 1	सम्पन्न
Latin	सम्पन्न, 2 Versions	सम्पन्न link 1	no
Latvian	सम्पन्न	सम्पन्न link 1	सम्पन्न
Luxembourgish	सम्पन्न	सम्पन्न link 1	सम्पन्न
Malay	सम्पन्न	सम्पन्न link 1 link 2
Minangkabauian	सम्पन्न	सम्पन्न link 1	सम्पन्न
Nynorsk	सम्पन्न	सम्पन्न link 1	Todo
"plain" ???	सम्पन्न	ToDo	???
Okzitanian (Languedocien)	सम्पन्न	सम्पन्न link 1	no
Oriya	सम्पन्न	सम्पन्न link 1	सम्पन्न
Persian	Not done	सम्पन्न link 1
Polish	सम्पन्न, 2 Versions	सम्पन्न link 1	सम्पन्न
Portuguese	सम्पन्न, 2 versions	सम्पन्न link 1 link 2	सम्पन्न
Romanian	सम्पन्न very bad Quality	ToDo
Russian	सम्पन्न	सम्पन्न link 1	सम्पन्न
Swedish	सम्पन्न, 2 Versions	सम्पन्न link 1	सम्पन्न
Slovak	सम्पन्न	सम्पन्न link 1	सम्पन्न
Serbian	Not done	सम्पन्न link 1	Todo
Sesotho / South Sotho	Not done	सम्पन्न link 1	सम्पन्न
Spanish	सम्पन्न, 2 Versions	सम्पन्न link 1 link 2	सम्पन्न
Sundanese	सम्पन्न	सम्पन्न link 1	सम्पन्न
Tagalog	सम्पन्न	सम्पन्न link 1	सम्पन्न
Tamil	सम्पन्न, 2 Versions	सम्पन्न link 1	no
Turkisch	Not done	सम्पन्न link 1 (bad quality)	Todo
Ukrainian	सम्पन्न	सम्पन्न link 1	सम्पन्न
Urdu	सम्पन्न	सम्पन्न link 1	सम्पन्न
Walloons	सम्पन्न	सम्पन्न link 1	सम्पन्न
West Frisian	सम्पन्न	सम्पन्न link 1	सम्पन्न
Yiddish	सम्पन्न	सम्पन्न link 1	no