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I saw this on a Hebrew news site, and think it is one of the coolest uses of modern technology:
Sadly in the next century 50 till 90 present of the 7000 languages spoken today will disappear.
As some of those languages are spoken by a decreasing amount of aged people whose children choose, because of economical and political circumstances, to speak the official language of their country or english.
"The Rosetta Project is a global collaboration of language specialists and native speakers working to develop a contemporary version of the historic Rosetta Stone"
The new Rosetta stone (Named after the one found next to Napoleons troupes and raveled the world the ancient Egyptian writings) is a 3 inch Nickel disk, currently containing 1,445 languages.
So people if you know a ( real ) language that you think will be forgotten in the next century, hurry up and visit: www.rosettaproject.org .
( Iceman go and teach them Kujan or what ever you call it )
Sadly in the next century 50 till 90 present of the 7000 languages spoken today will disappear.
As some of those languages are spoken by a decreasing amount of aged people whose children choose, because of economical and political circumstances, to speak the official language of their country or english.
"The Rosetta Project is a global collaboration of language specialists and native speakers working to develop a contemporary version of the historic Rosetta Stone"
The new Rosetta stone (Named after the one found next to Napoleons troupes and raveled the world the ancient Egyptian writings) is a 3 inch Nickel disk, currently containing 1,445 languages.
So people if you know a ( real ) language that you think will be forgotten in the next century, hurry up and visit: www.rosettaproject.org .
( Iceman go and teach them Kujan or what ever you call it )