Re: Archiving language information (was Re: Saving endangered langs (was Re: Extrapolating languages))

Tim May wrote:

> Paul Bennett wrote at 2003-12-26 17:04:17 (-0500)
>  >
>  > Additional PS: Didn't I read in some science magazine about a
>  > project to mark Nuclear Waste sites with big stone monoliths,
>  > deeply carved with warnings in six popular languages (ISTR English,
>  > Russian, Spanish, Hindi, Chinese and Arabic)?
>
> It's more likely that the languages in question were
> as above but with French rather than Russian, as these would then be
> the official languages of the UN, . . .

The original official languages of the United Nations were
English, French, Spanish, Russian, and Chinese.  Later
Arabic was added.

--Ph. D.