In my opinion, having new languages added after a very long time might be a bit discouraging for people requesting them. They might see that such languages are sort of neglected, so maybe they could leave for other platforms and leave very little sentences here on Tatoeba.

I'm probably not one to respond so you can disregard this if it's not of importance or if it's been considered before but here's my take.

I think that reaching out to native speakers and asking them phrases would be the best course of action in this case. If you want to find native speakers you could go online and make some friends I suppose? I mean there's a subreddit full of people who speak Bikol so maybe we could reach out to them to see if they could contribute on to here?

> I have even feared that the admins might delete some of these languages due to having very few phrases.

I can say for sure that your fear is groundless. Rest assured, langages that have been added to Tatoeba already, no matter how few sentences they have, will never be deleted from Tatoeba. (The only situation this could possibly happen is when the SIL removes a language from its list, which happens occasionally, for example when two languages are merged back.)

Please, understand that Tatoeba is a fully volunteer-based project. As such, whatever part of Tatoeba looking neglected is only because nobody stepped in to take care of it so far. Anybody can take part as long as they follow the code of conduct.

Having read your message, I'm not sure what the discussion point is here.

Tatoeba gives speakers a place to submit sentences in their language of choice, and document usage through text. That's Tatoeba's job, and it's a job that it's already doing very well. If a language has 3-5 sentences, for me, the sentiment is that the native speakers thereof could really do a better job adding sentences to the platform, especially whoever requested the language to be added to it. The fact that a language with _400 million speakers_ (Bikol) has 5 sentences on Tatoeba is almost ridiculous.

As for attracting more speakers, I'm not sure what one could do other than tell their friends about the platform - Tatoeba is a volunteer project, and the donations it receives are not sufficient to run any sort of marketing campaign to 'get out there'. All that we can do to support Tatoeba in this matter, really, is to just take it upon ourselves to put in better effort to make the platform more known.

It looks like it has already been changed to Ho.

Hi and welcome to Tatoeba. This is what should be done to have a new language added: https://en.wiki.tatoeba.org/art...guage-request#

BONNE ANNÉE à tous.

You can remove the old tag from a sentence and add a new tag with a different name instead. If you want to change all occurrences of a tag, it's going to be a lot of work, of course. (Unless you know how to automate it. That's how I added "quote" tags to a bunch of sentences tagged "by <Somebody>")

And you cannot change tags that someone else added, but you can add the new tag next to the old tag.