The main pages of the Einstein Telescope Italia website are now also available in the Sardinian language. The translation was carried out by the Regional Language Office of the Sardinian Language and Culture Service of the Sardinia Region, with scientific support from the National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), thanks to an agreement signed in recent months between the Region and the INFN, which was followed by a resolution approved by the Regional Government.
Sardinian joins the five European languages already available (Italian, English, French, Spanish, and German) in which visitors can access the site’s content, dedicated to promoting the candidacy of the Sos Enattos area, in the Nuoro region, to host the future gravitational wave observatory.
The web pages now available in Sardinian delve into both scientific topics, such as gravitational wave science and the new frontiers of discovery that the Einstein Telescope experiment could open up, and aspects more directly related to the Italian candidacy, including the features and ongoing activities at the candidate site in Sos Enattos and the numerous impacts (technological, environmental, and socio-economic) that the arrival of the infrastructure would have for Sardinia.
«The decision to translate the Einstein Telescope project content into Sardinian achieves a double goal», said the President of the Region, Alessandra Todde. «On the one hand – she explained – it promotes, enhances, and spreads our language, even beyond regional and national borders. At the same time, it demonstrates how the candidacy to host this infrastructure in Sardinia goes beyond the purely scientific sphere, touching the economic, social, and (as in this case) cultural aspects of our land».
“We thank the Sardina Region for accepting our proposal to translate and publish the Einstein Telescope website content in Sardinian, with the support of the Regional Language Office», added Alessandro Cardini, Director of the Cagliari section of INFN. «This initiative, in addition to being an important new step in our efforts to promote Sardinia’s candidacy to host the ET, is also an interesting linguistic experiment, showing that it is possible to express scientific concepts, whether simple or complex, in the Sardinian language».