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This is the illusionist, in which I, Helen Zoltzman, apply for a job in languages slime factory.

So, I've been working on this mini series of episodes about minority languages and the

threats they face and how they survive. Last episode, Welsh speakers took the drastic

step of migrating to Argentina, but in researching this subject, I kept referring back to a pair

of illusionists from a while ago. The key. Part 1, Rosetta, was about how a language survives

in physical form when its humans die, featuring the smash hit archaeological object of the Rosetta

stone and its namesake, the Rosetta disc, the linguistic key to the future. Part 2 is

about how to decipher a dead language and why it might have died. This is a double

bill of both those pieces to go with the survival mini series that we will pick up with next

time. Here's part 1, Rosetta. I'm holding by the edges the present and perhaps future of language.

This is one of our prototypes of the Rosetta disc that we have on display here at the

Interval. The Interval is down in the Fort Mason centre for arts and culture of former

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