Languanologue # 10

For the past three days, we saw about the Ethnologue, now we will see about another similar source, the Linguasphere Observatory.

The Linguasphere Observatory is an international language research network created in Quebec, Canada in 1983. Its current headquarters are based in Wales, UK. In 1999/2000, the Linguasphere Observatory published David Dalby's 2-volume Linguasphere Register of the World's Languages and Speech Communities (LSR1). Since 2006, the Observatory has concentrated on the preparation of the updated second edition of the Linguasphere Register (LSR2). It has come up with an innovative language code too. The Linguasphere language code is a reference system for world languages used by the Linguasphere Observatory and published in its Linguasphere Register. It is an expansive, flexible system that relates each language or dialect with another.