Project Lingua, or just Lingua is an online translation community formed in the end of 2006[1] with the goal of translating articles from the global citizen media project Global Voices Online from English into other languages, opening lines of distributed[2] communication between bloggers across the world.

[4][1][5][6] Lingua began as a community-based initiative by Taiwanese blogger Portnoy Zheng,[7] who started translating Global Voices articles into Chinese as early as September, 2005.

[7] This initial idea became a project of its own at the Global Voices Summit in December 2006, where it was given the name "Lingua".

The first official Lingua sites, launched by June 2007, were Chinese (both Simplified and Traditional), Bangla, Farsi, Spanish, Portuguese, and French.

In August 2012, Lingua launched a collaborative effort to translate the Declaration of Internet Freedom[77] providing the text in 31 languages.