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</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For the project to land a probe on comet 67P, see <a href="Rosetta_(spacecraft)" title="Rosetta (spacecraft)">Rosetta (spacecraft)</a>.</div>

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</style><table class="infobox vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above summary">Rosetta Project</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><div class="infobox-caption">One goal of the project is the three-inch nickel <a href="HD-Rosetta" title="HD-Rosetta">Rosetta Disk</a>, on which will be etched 13,000 <a href="Microscopic" class="mw-redirect" title="Microscopic">microscopic</a> pages of text.</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="Mission_statement" title="Mission statement">Mission statement</a></th><td class="infobox-data">The Rosetta Project is a global collaboration of language specialists and native speakers working to build a publicly accessible digital library of human languages.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Commercial?</th><td class="infobox-data">No</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Type of project</th><td class="infobox-data">Archival of human languages</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Products</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="HD-Rosetta" title="HD-Rosetta">Rosetta Disk</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Status</th><td class="infobox-data">Active</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://rosettaproject.org/">rosettaproject<wbr>.org</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table>

<p>The <b>Rosetta Project</b> is a global collaboration of language specialists and native speakers working to develop a contemporary version of the historic <a href="Rosetta_Stone" title="Rosetta Stone">Rosetta Stone</a>. Run by the <a href="Long_Now_Foundation" title="Long Now Foundation">Long Now Foundation</a>, the project aims to create a survey and near-permanent archive of 1,500 <a href="Language" title="Language">languages</a> that can enable <a href="Comparative_linguistics" title="Comparative linguistics">comparative linguistic</a> research and education and might help recover or revitalize lost languages in the future.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>The project works through an open-contribution, open-review process similar to the one that created the <i><a href="Oxford_English_Dictionary" title="Oxford English Dictionary">Oxford English Dictionary</a></i>. The archive will be publicly available in three media: a <a href="HD-Rosetta" title="HD-Rosetta">HD-Rosetta</a> micro-etched <a href="Nickel" title="Nickel">nickel</a> <a href="Alloy" title="Alloy">alloy</a> disc three inches (7.62 cm) across with a 2,000-year life expectancy; a single-volume monumental reference book; and a growing online archive.

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<p>Half to 90 percent of the world's languages are predicted to disappear in the next century, many with little or no significant documentation. Some of these languages have fewer than one thousand speakers left. Others are considered to be dying out because <a href="Language_policy" title="Language policy">language policy</a> based on an <a href="Official_language" title="Official language">official language</a> is increasing the prevalence of major languages that are used as the <a href="Medium_of_instruction" title="Medium of instruction">medium of instruction</a> in public schools and national media. (For example, <a href="Tok_Pisin" title="Tok Pisin">Tok Pisin</a> is "slowly crowding out" other <a href="Languages_of_Papua_New_Guinea" title="Languages of Papua New Guinea">languages of Papua New Guinea</a>.)<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>Much linguistic description, especially the description of languages with few speakers, remains hidden in personal research files or poorly preserved in under-funded archives.

</p><p>As part of the effort to secure this critical legacy of linguistic diversity, the Long Now Foundation plans a broad online survey and near-permanent physical archive of 1,500 of the approximately 7,000 human languages.

</p><p>The project has three overlapping goals:

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<ol><li>to create an unprecedented platform for comparative linguistic research and education;</li>

<li>to develop and widely distribute a functional linguistic tool that might help with the recovery of lost or compromised languages in unknown futures;</li>

<li>to offer an aesthetic object that suggests the immense diversity of human languages as well as the very real threats to the continued survival of this diversity.</li></ol>

<p>The 1,500-language <a href="Corpus_linguistics" title="Corpus linguistics">corpus</a> expands on the parallel-text structure of the original Rosetta Stone through archiving ten descriptive components for each of the 1,500 selected languages.

</p><p>The goal is an <a href="Open-source_software" title="Open-source software">open source</a> "<a href="Linux" title="Linux">Linux</a> of <a href="Linguistics" title="Linguistics">Linguistics</a>"—an effort of collaborative online scholarship drawing on the expertise and contributions of thousands of academic specialists and native speakers around the world. The project is also organising formal archive research groups at <a href="Stanford_University" title="Stanford University">Stanford</a>, <a href="Yale_University" title="Yale University">Yale</a>, <a href="University_of_California%2C_Berkeley" title="University of California, Berkeley">Berkeley</a>, the American <a href="Library_of_Congress" title="Library of Congress">Library of Congress</a>, and the American <a href="SIL_International" class="mw-redirect" title="SIL International">Summer Institute of Linguistics</a> (and its offices in <a href="Dallas" title="Dallas">Dallas</a>).

</p><p>The resulting Rosetta archives are publicly available in three different media:

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<ol><li>a free and continually growing online archive, also available as a DVD;<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>

<li>a single-volume monumental reference book;</li>

<li>an extreme-longevity micro-etched disc.</li></ol>

<p>In a direct analogy to its <a href="Rosetta_Stone" title="Rosetta Stone">namesake</a>, the <a href="Rosetta_(spacecraft)" title="Rosetta (spacecraft)">Rosetta spacecraft</a> carried a micro-etched pure nickel prototype of the Rosetta disc donated by the <a href="Long_Now_Foundation" title="Long Now Foundation">Long Now Foundation</a>. The disc was inscribed with 6,500 pages of language translations. The Rosetta spacecraft, with the Rosetta disc launched on 2 March 2004. On 6 August 2014, the spacecraft reached the comet <a href="67P/Churyumov%E2%80%93Gerasimenko" title="67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko">67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko</a>. On 30 September 2016, the Rosetta spacecraft ended its mission by hard-landing on the comet in its Ma'at region. The Rosetta disc, Rosetta spacecraft and comet are now all on a 6.44 year orbit around the Sun.

</p><p>A "Version 1.0" of the <a href="HD-Rosetta" title="HD-Rosetta">HD-Rosetta</a> disc was completed on 3 November 2008.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The disc contains over 13,000 pages of information using over 1,500 languages,<sup id="cite_ref-weardisk_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-weardisk-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which can be read after magnifying by 650 times with a microscope.

</p><p>In early 2017, the Rosetta Wearable Disk was released.<sup id="cite_ref-Smithsonian_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Smithsonian-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was developed using a similar manufacturing process as the first edition of the Rosetta Disk, the main difference being that the final archive is about 2 cm (0.79 in) in diameter, thus enabling wearing as an ornament on the human body. One side has instructions in eight different languages and scripts (Bahasa Indonesia, English, Hindi, Mandarin, Modern Standard Arabic, Spanish, Swahili, and Russian), and the other an archive of over 1000 human languages assembled in 2016. By November 2017, the initial run of 100 disks had all been sold, but new releases are planned.<sup id="cite_ref-weardisk_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-weardisk-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<ul><li><a href="All_Species_Foundation" title="All Species Foundation">All Species Foundation</a>, another project of the foundation</li>

<li><a href="Intercontinental_Dictionary_Series" title="Intercontinental Dictionary Series">Intercontinental Dictionary Series</a></li>

<li><a href="Endangered_language" title="Endangered language">Endangered language</a></li>

<li><a href="Language_death" title="Language death">Language death</a></li>

<li><a href="Language_revitalization" title="Language revitalization">Language revitalization</a></li>

<li><a href="Time_capsule" title="Time capsule">Time capsule</a></li>

<li><a href="Lingua_Libre" title="Lingua Libre">Lingua Libre</a></li></ul>

<ul><li><a href="Frozen_zoo" title="Frozen zoo">Frozen zoo</a></li>

<li><a href="National_Ice_Core_Laboratory" class="mw-redirect" title="National Ice Core Laboratory">National Ice Core Laboratory</a></li>

<li><a href="Amphibian_Ark" title="Amphibian Ark">Amphibian Ark</a></li>

<li><a href="Svalbard_Global_Seed_Vault" title="Svalbard Global Seed Vault">Svalbard Global Seed Vault</a></li></ul>

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<ul><li><span class="official-website"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://rosettaproject.org/">Official website</a></span></span></li>

<li>Dan Farber, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20051216072752/http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=1443">"The Rosetta Project: Rescuing languages"</a>, <a href="ZDNet" class="mw-redirect" title="ZDNet">ZDNet</a> May 25, 2005 <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20051216072752/http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=1443">Archived copy</a></li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://vimeo.com/43530099">Rosetta Project film</a></li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/rosettaproject">Rosetta Project</a> at the <a href="Internet_Archive" title="Internet Archive">Internet Archive</a></li></ul></div><div><div class="zim-footer">

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