The Rosetta Project: A Long Now Foundation Library of Human Language

The Rosetta Project is a global collaboration of language specialists and native speakers working to build a publicly accessible digital library of human languages.' The collection has grown to over 100,000 pages of documents, as well as language recordings, for over 2,500 languages. The collection is now housed as a special collection in the Internet Archive, and the collection continues to expand through new materials and contributions. 'A primary focus of in-house collection was the scanning of print materials available in local University libraries, with the goal of digitizing (to the extent possible) the legacy "paper trail" of language documentation, generally consisting of descriptive grammars, dictionaries, and collections of texts.' Various projects enable public access to language documentation and linguistic resources, available online and searchable. See website for more information.