Ethnoblog
As our contribution to the celebration of International Mother Language Day, we are pleased to announce the release of the 28th edition of Ethnologue.
Read MoreAs our contribution to the celebration of International Mother Language Day, we are pleased to announce the release of the 27th edition of Ethnologue.
Read MoreThe Global Voice (GV) initiative is a program launched by Ethnologue to improve the quality of the data that is available on the language ecologies of the world.
Read MoreAs our contribution to the celebration of International Mother Language Day, we are pleased to announce the release of the 26th edition of Ethnologue.
Read MoreAs our contribution to the celebration of International Mother Language Day, we are pleased to announce the release of the 25th edition of Ethnologue.
Read MoreAs our contribution to the celebration of International Mother Language Day, we are pleased to announce the release of Ethnologue, 24th edition.
Read MoreAs our contribution to the celebration of International Mother Language Day, we are pleased to announce the release of Ethnologue, 23rd edition.
Read MoreWe're making some changes, including adding new plans, removing page counts, and introducing our new Contributor Program.
Read MoreAs our contribution to the celebration of International Mother Language Day, we are pleased to announce the release of Ethnologue, 22nd edition.
Read MoreAs our contribution to the celebration of International Mother Language Day, we are pleased to announce the release of Ethnologue, 21st edition.
Read MoreAs our contribution to the celebration of International Mother Language Day, we are pleased to announce the release of Ethnologue, 20th edition.
Read MoreHow many languages are there in the world? If you're familiar with the Ethnologue, you already know that the answer is in the thousands. But what does that really look like? Where are these languages?
Read MoreAs our contribution to the celebration of International Mother Language Day, we are pleased to release Ethnologue, 19th edition.
Read MoreAt the end of this month we'll release the 19th edition of the Ethnologue. We look forward to the changes and updates that will be part of that. At the same time I take a look back at the last 10 years and the changes I've seen during my time as an editor.
Read MoreAs we enter a new year, we are entering the final stretch in preparation for the 19th edition.
Read MoreThe team of personnel who now work on Ethnologue has grown as the scope of the project and the number and kinds of products we offer have expanded. The time has come where our growth and our plans for continued improvement require us to look at some additional funding options.
Read More'Ghost languages' refers to the cases where the Ethnologue lists languages for which there is no real evidence of their existence. These are not languages that are extinct, so-called 'dead languages'.
Read MoreMigration has been happening since the beginning of time and happens for many different reasons. Whatever the cause, the movement of people also means the movement of languages.
Read MoreSummer vacations are supposed to be restful. Not this one!
Read MoreLast month, I talked about the process, this month, some details on the books themselves...
Read MoreSometime in the next few weeks the 18th edition print volumes should become available through your preferred bookseller. This post isn't about the details of the new edition. It is about the process we use to produce them and demonstrates the ongoing development of the Ethnologue as a source for useful information.
Read MoreIn response to a comment on last month's Ethnoblog post, we share some thoughts on the extinction of languages (language endangerment and death) that we hope will clear up some confusion.
Read MoreThere is a growing body of evidence that linguistic diversity and biological diversity are somehow linked to each other. A recent publication examines that using Ethnologue data.
Read MoreWe've mentioned before how others are making use of the Ethnologue, but a major report on internet connectivity is one of the first to use the Ethnologue Global Dataset.
Read MoreIn recognition of International Mother Language Day, we are happy to be able to update the Ethnologue to its 18th edition.
Read MoreAfter the holiday break, Ethnologue Central has burst into a flurry of activity. Here are some of the things that we are working on.
Read MoreHappy New Year from all of us here at Ethnologue Central. We're taking a short break but are gearing up for the release of the 18th edition. Exciting things to come in 2015!
Read MoreAs Christians begin the celebration of Advent, few of us (except us language geeks) pause to think about what languages were used for all of the words that accompanied that event.
Read MoreWe're happy to announce that the Ethnologue, 17th edition is now available in print.
Read MoreMany people turn to the Ethnologue as their source for information about languages, but there are some things you shouldn't take for granted...
Read MoreIn its May 10th edition The Economist cited the Ethnologue as a source for its article poking fun at Vlaimir Putin's language ideology.
Read MoreThe EGIDS is our own scale that we developed to enable us to evaluate the vitality of the world's languages. It is the cornerstone of a larger framework that we call the Sustainable Use Model. Here's a brief description of that model.
Read MoreStill like the feel of paper in your hands? Check out Ethnologue's print and printable products.
Read MoreLast month we launched a new way for Ethnologue users to interact with the editors by adding a feedback function to the website. This month, I give a fuller description of the way it all works and describe some of the advantages of engaging in conversation with us.
Read MoreIn spite of some delays and a number of technical issues, I'm happy to report that the Ethnologue website you are looking at is now new and improved with the latest data and with several new features.
Read MoreThe Ethnologue staff and all the SIL family were saddened to hear of the passing on March 1, 2014 of Barbara F. Grimes, editor emerita of the Ethnologue.
Read MoreWe didn't make our goal of getting the website updated last week, but we can report some new statistics...
Read MoreIt's been a year since the redesigned Ethnologue website was launched. Now it's time for an update and more.
Read MoreAll the best for 2014 from all of us at the Ethnologue!
Read MoreLast June I was privileged to be a participant in the closing conference of the ELDIA Project, a good example of how an in-depth and interdisciplinary analysis of the situation of a language can be carried out.
Read MoreIn addition to the EGIDS status, mentioned in an earlier Ethnoblog post, we have also implemented a new system for identifying the function(s) that a language may have in the country where it is spoken.
Read MoreThe Ethnologue deals with the languages of the world, so it would seem to be important that we be able to say what we mean when we refer to "a language".
Read MoreOften there are more than one language called by the same name. Sometimes the same language is known by different names. In order to look up a specific language in such cases, you need more than just the name.
Read MoreSign languages are not in the same category as all the other languages in Ethnologue, people say to me. What is the reason they are included right along with spoken languages?
Read MoreWhere did the language resources go?
Read MoreIt makes us happy when we see that others are making use of the Ethnologue.
Read MoreThe 17th edition of the Ethnologue has been online for a month now, and we are gratified by the response we have received.
Read MoreThe 17th edition of the Ethnologue has been online for a month now, and we are gratified by the response we have received.
Read MoreThis is the first of many posts to this blog in which we hope to discuss topics of interest to lovers of language.
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