The Rosetta project by the Long Now Foundation is absolutely brilliant.
We are creating this unprecedented digital library of human language through an open contribution, peer review process and we invite you to participate. All documents and data sets are freely available through this growing online database as well as archived on an extreme longevity micro-etched nickel disk- a contemporary “Rosetta Stone” for the languages of the world.
There is also a word list database that will feed you analogues for common words in 1384 different languages.
For those who speak !O!ung the word for bird is tsama
and the word for stone is !num.
Those whos language is the Marimanindji dialect of Australia say smoke is cancamu and who is kilimpe.
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language,
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