The Tower of Babel

An International Etymological Database Project

The Russian State University of the Humanities (Center of Comparative Linguistics)
The Moscow Jewish University
The Russian Academy of Sciences (Dept. of History and Philology)
The Santa Fe Institute (New Mexico, USA)
The City University of Hong Kong
The Leiden University

The main goal of the project is to join efforts in the research of long range connections between established linguistic families of the world. Internet is a brilliant way to combine our attempts and to build up a commonly accessible database of roots, or etyma reconstructed for the World's major (and minor) linguistic stocks.

Every person or organization interested in this noble task is invited to join. For details consult