As part of the effort to secure this critical legacy of linguistic diversity, The Long Now Foundation is working to develop a contemporary version of the historic Rosetta Stone...The resulting Rosetta archive will be publicly available in three different media: an extreme longevity [2,000 years!] nickel disk; a single volume monumental reference book; and through this growing online database. The extreme longevity disk will be mounted in a spherical container (see photo on right) and our plans are to globally distribute around 10,000 of these to individuals, institutions and others who care to keep one.
User contributions are requested to expand the public collection of language descriptions, vernacular texts, analytic materials and audio files.
This is an amazing project.
