Dreamer Posted May 22, 2008 Report Posted May 22, 2008 A Pedra da Roseta é uma lage de granito com o mesmo texto escrito em grego, demótico e escrita hieroglífica, e que no passado permitiu a decifração desta última. Ela foi a fonte de inspiração que deu corpo ao Rosetta Project, uma biblioteca virtual com arquivos de cerca de 2.500 línguas de todo o mundo, muitas delas em vias de extinção. Aliás, prevê-se o desaparecimento de entre 50 a 90% das línguas do Mundo, nos próximos cem anos. The Rosetta Project is a global collaboration of language specialists and native speakers working to build a publicly accessible digital library of human languages. Since becoming a National Science Digital Library collection in 2004, the Rosetta Archive has more than doubled its collection size, now serving nearly 100,000 pages of material documenting over 2,500 languages—the largest resource of its kind on the Net. A major concern of our project is the drastic and accelerated loss of the world’s languages. Just as globalization threatens human cultural diversity, the languages of small, unique, localized human societies are at serious risk. In fact, linguists predict that we may lose as much as 90% of the world’s linguistic diversity within the next century. Language is both an embodiment of human culture, as well as the primary means of its maintenance and transmission. When languages are lost, the transmission of traditional culture is often abruptly severed meaning the loss of cultural diversity is tightly connected to loss of linguistic diversity. To stem the tide and help reverse this trend, we are working to promote human cultural and linguistic diversity, as well as to make sure that no language vanishes without a trace. More about the resources in our archive and how to find them...Participate in Rosetta community with your own member page... Meet the people involved with the Rosetta Project… Learn about the Rosetta Disk--a 10,000 year archive!… Projects, organizations, and ideas that inspire us…Donate to The Rosetta Project and help us build our archive… Find out more about the projects and programs of The Long Now Foundation, our parent organization… Mais informação em http://www.rosettaproject.org/ Quote Não é incrível tudo o que pode caber dentro de um lápis?...
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