Technology in service of voices that matter most.
Ethnos Technologies is a formally registered private limited company based in Nepal 🇳🇵. We operate at the intersection of technology and cultural preservation — contracted by international non-profits to execute language preservation work on the ground.
These organizations share a common mission: preserving languages that lack the economic or political weight to sustain natural preservation. We are their operational partners — local presence, relationships, and technical execution.
We identify languages with little to no recorded presence in their heart language. Through facility-based work and remote empowerment, we recruit native speakers and facilitate language preservation — audio recording, documentation, and data collection.
The data we collect serves our partners' preservation goals and contributes to an open-source body of linguistic resources that benefits communities themselves.
A structured four-step process. Each project begins with the community whose language we're preserving and ends with a permanent record delivered to our partners.
We locate language communities with minimal or no documentation in their heart language.
We engage native speakers as active participants in preserving their own language and heritage.
Through facility-based and remote sessions, we collect high-quality audio and language documentation.
Completed language assets are delivered to our non-profit partners for preservation and distribution.
Real legal infrastructure on the ground in Nepal — paired with international partnerships and a community-first operating principle.
Registered as a private limited company in Nepal with full legal compliance, tax clearance, and government accountability.
Commissioned by Western non-profits to execute language preservation work on the ground. Revenue earned through delivery — not speculation.
Every project begins and ends with the community whose language we are preserving. Their speakers, their stories, their future.
Our team operates across Nepal with deep local relationships — working alongside communities in some of the world's most remote areas to capture languages before they are lost forever.
We serve as the hands and feet of international preservation efforts, bringing technical expertise and genuine human connection to every recording session.
Three source texts, three rates of progress, one shared goal: a complete, archival record of how the language is actually spoken.
Our coverage goal targets the vocabulary a fluent speaker actually uses across daily life, story, and song. Together, our three sources triangulate that span — narrative verse, prose fiction, and structured elicitation.
Two bilingual speakers sit together with the Ethnos recording app. One reads the Nepali source aloud; the other translates into the minority language.
They deliberate together on the best rendering — accuracy and naturalness, never speed. Every session is recorded, logged, and archived.
Sessions run 4 hours/day, 3–4 times per week. Each language reaches meaningful coverage in roughly 4–6 months of active work.
“ What if the language data of an overlooked community became the foundation for their participation in a global economy?
For partnership inquiries, government correspondence, or general information about our work in Nepal 🇳🇵 — we'd love to hear from you.
