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Type of site | Online parallel corpora |
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| Available in | 56 languages of the interface; content in 422 languages (February 2024) languages |
| Country of origin | France |
| Owner | Association Tatoeba |
| Founder(s) | Trang Ho |
| Key people | Allan Simon |
| URL | tatoeba |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Optional |
| Launched | 2006 |
| Current status | Online |
Content license | CC BY (some sentences under CC0), audio varies |
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 tatoeba (例えば), 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.