Languanologue # 7

Today we will see some information on the main source... this is my source for the 15 days of this series. It is the Ethnologue - Languages of the World. For the next three days, we will see random facts and information on the Ethnologue.

Ethnologue: Languages of the World is a web and print publication of SIL International (formerly known as the Summer Institute of Linguistics), a Christian Linguistic service organization, which studies lesser-known languages, primarily to provide the speakers with Bibles in their native language. The Ethnologue contains statistics for 7,358 languages in the 16th edition, released in 2009 (up from 6,912 in the 15th edition, released 2005 and 6,809 in the 14th edition, released 2000). It gives the number of speakers, location, dialects, linguistic affiliations and is thus currently the most comprehensive existing language inventory, along with the Linguasphere Observatory Register. Tomorrow we will see more on the Ethnologue and beyond it too.