Today we will see something more on the Ethnologue. Today we will see something about the controversies the Ethnologue has created, in contrast to the common facts that we saw yesterday. Some of this information is from the Ethnologue website and the rest is from Wikipedia...
The Ethnologue has a spot of controversy too. Some accuse the Ethnologue of dividing languages, preferring to call the different varieties "dialects". In other cases, the Ethnologue has been accused of lumping together different languages as "dialects" of single languages. As the preface says, "Not all scholars share the same set of criteria for what constitutes a 'language' and what features define a 'dialect.'"In 1984, the Ethnologue released a three-letter coding system, called a SIL code, to identify each language that it describes. In addition to choosing a primary name for the language, it also gives some of the names by which a language is called by different people and bodies. Errors are fixed in every edition.
Tomorrow we will see about the language families listed by the Ethnologue.
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