A living dictionary built by the community — browse, search, and discover words translated from local languages to English.
Languages carry more than meaning — they hold the memory of a people, their rituals, their relationship with the land and sky. When a word disappears, a way of seeing disappears with it.
Oisora exists to keep those words alive. Not in archives, but in use — spoken, written, passed forward.
Half are expected to vanish by 2100 without active preservation efforts.
Young speakers often cannot name traditional objects, rituals, or emotions in their mother tongue.
Every elder is a library. Every word submitted here is a page saved.
Words passed through generations by fire and story, never written — until now. Oisora gives them a permanent home.
Terms for weaving, harvest, ceremony, and kinship — precise words that carry entire practices within them.
Indigenous place names and landscape words that encode ecological knowledge no map can carry.
For the next generation
Language loss accelerates when youth can't access words in formats they use. Oisora bridges that gap — a dictionary built for today, preserving what belongs to tomorrow.
Every entry includes the original term, its meaning in English, an example sentence, and its cultural context — so nothing is lost in translation.
If you grew up hearing a word your grandparents used — submit it. Community contributions are reviewed and preserved permanently.
The best preservation is daily use. Share words with friends, family, schools. A word used is a word alive.
"A language is not just a tool for communication — it is a vessel of memory, a map of belonging, a living archive of who we are."
— The Oisora Archive
Every word is submitted with its English translation so anyone can understand it.
Words are contributed and verified by native speakers from the community.
New words are added regularly — the lexicon grows with the community.
“Every word you preserve is a memory that refuses to disappear.”
— Sojak Chakma, Co-founder of Oisora
Oisora Living Archive