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Donation
Keeping the record open
Lazuri is classified by UNESCO as definitely endangered, and most of its fluent speakers are now over forty. Lazepe exists to write down what can still be written down, in a language that has spent most of its life unwritten. The site takes no advertising and belongs to no institution.
Where the money goes
- Hosting and the domain. The running cost of keeping the site online and reachable from Turkey, Georgia and the diaspora.
- Translation. Every page exists in five languages. Machine translation does the first pass; the terms that matter are checked by hand.
- Documentation. Recording speakers, digitising printed material in Lazuri, and buying the books and grammars the articles are built from.
- Research time. Verifying dates, place names and claims before they are published, which is slow and is the part nobody sees.
Make a donation
Any amount helps. There is no subscription and nothing to sign up for.
Payment is handled by Buy Me a Coffee. Card accepted, no account needed.
Other ways to help
- Send a correction. Finding a wrong date or a bad transcription is worth more than a donation. Tell us.
- Send material. Photographs, letters, printed Lazuri, recordings of anyone speaking the language.
- Proofread a language. If you read Turkish, French, German or Georgian, you will find things the machine got wrong.
- Pass it on. Sharing an article with someone who grew up hearing Lazuri does more than it sounds like it does.
Dido maden!
Thank you very much, in Lazuri