The Rosetta Project.

[Tabula Rasa]

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 )

 

[chastity]

Cool idea. But its also sad that those language's are disappearing.

 

[funky dredd]

I think this is a great idea. But like Chastity said it is a shame that these laguages are disappearing.

 

[Jz1397-5]

its a great idea, i am sure as we become more zoned in on english, spanish, etc... others will die off. Sad to see, thank god we still have latin.

 

[Nick M]

Very good Idea. Very very good. But it saddens me to see that languages are fading off into nothing. That's really upsetting; because as the languages go away; the people's cultures go also; and I find it very nice when someone follows their own unique culture; and doesn't ruthlessly confrom to the rest of society.