The design consists of an Earth map at the center with spokes radiating outward holding 27,000 language data pages- 27 pages for each language. The actual Rosetta Disc is a micro-etched nickel alloy disc 5.08 cm across with a 2,000-year life expectancy. The bottom hemisphere is high-grade stainless steel. The upper hemisphere is made of optical glass and doubles as a 6X viewer, giving visual access deeper into the tapered text rings. The container is split into two hemispheres with the three inch Rosetta Disc sitting in an indent on the flat meeting surface of the two hemispheres. The Rosetta Disc is held in a four-inch spherical container that both protects the disk as well as provides additional functionality. The Rosetta Project aims to produce Rosetta Stone-like discs in order to preserve dying languages. Because Greek was well known, the stone was the key to deciphering the hieroglyphics. The original Rosetta stone was a tablet written in hieroglyphic symbols and the Egyptian and Greek languages. ![]() That’s where the Rosetta Project comes in. The UN says that least 3,000 tongues are endangered, seriously endangered, or dying in many parts of the world. In fact 50 to 90 percent of the world’s languages are predicted to disappear in the next century, many with little or no documentation. Norn and Polabian have already disappeared. Imminent extinction is also on the horizon for the Livonian, Krimchak and Yevanic languages. Experts generally consider a community’s language to be “endangered” when at least 30 per cent of its children no longer learn it. ![]() There are no children currently speaking Votian. The Votian language is also practically extinct with 50 speakers at most. Votes are the people of Ingria, an area of Russia just Southwest of St. ![]() Votian is the language spoken by the Votes.
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