Rosetta Project

Bob Lidral pointed me toward the Rosetta Project this morning. (They have a Wikipedia page too.) I noticed that their page about Esperanto was woefully empty, so I sent them an email offering to organize a group from Esperanto-USA to flesh out their resources. I got a reply back this afternoon. Read on for more, if you'd like to help out!

That would be wonderful, thanks for offering! These are the components of information we try to collect for every language as a starting point:

• Texts with accompanying word glosses / free translations (Genesis Ch. 1-3 is our parallel text, but others are fine)
• Vocabularies (a basic Swadesh list, dictionary, vocabulary sets like numbers, colors, etc.)
• General description of the language, its history, and speech community
• Grammatical descriptions (the sound system, word and sentence structure, etc.)
• Writing system
• Maps of speaker locations

The documents in our collection are all bitmap scans, but .pdfs work as well. When you have a few materials assembled, if you send me a page or two as a test, I'll be able to advise regarding sending additional information.

Anybody want to help out with this? I thought it might be good to have the Unua Libro, maybe The Esperanto Book. We need to come up with a list and make sure we get permissions before we submit something.