To date, the Pangloss open archive contains more than 3600 audio and video recordings in 170 languages from across all continents. For instance, it includes stories and songs in Xârâgurè (New Caledonia), conversations and tales in Kakabe (Guinea) and cooking recipes in Koyi rai (Nepal) and Na-našu (Italy) - a total of 780 hours of listening.
These data are the result of more than twenty years work by linguists and ethnologists who, in their own field of study, are working to collect and preserve the world s linguistic heritage. Some of the documents come from the digitisation of old magnetic tapes (1). Nearly half of the recordings are transcribed and annotated, some with contextual elements or translations into other languages. The site is open to contributions from both academic and non-academic experts, who are encouraged to improve the corpus by contributing to transcriptions and translations.