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The Rosetta Project is a collaboration between the Long Now Foundation and other organizations in the San Francisco area and around the country, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. The glass spheres, 2.8 inches in diameter, each hold 15,000 pages of information and are expected to last for at least 2,000 years.

Alexander Rose, director of the foundation, said that from half to 90 percent of the languages in the world could vanish by the end of the century.

"We're standing now on the last generation of the majority of tribal languages in the world", Rose said. "We're losing them so fast."

A similar sphere was placed on the Rosetta spacecraft, launched by the European Space Agency in 2004.

The Long Now Foundation's goal is to "lengthen the cultural attention span" to help solve problems that do not have quick fixes.

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