Ethnologue
Sign in to saveEthnologue: Languages of the World (stylized as Ethnoloɠue) is an annual reference publication in print and online that provides statistics and other information on the living languages of the world. It is the world's most comprehensive catalogue of languages. It was first issued in 1951 and is now published by SIL Global, an American evangelical Christian non-profit organization.
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Ethnologue is a comprehensive annual reference that catalogues the world's living languages and provides statistics and information about them, making it the most complete language database available. It has been published since 1951 and is currently maintained by SIL Global, an American non-profit organization, in both print and online formats.
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- Language database
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- English
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- Overview and content
- History
- Reception, reliability, and use
- Editions
- References
- Bibliography
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Ethnologue: Languages of the World (stylized as Ethnoloɠue) is an annual reference publication in print and online that provides statistics and other information on the living languages of the world. It is the world's most comprehensive catalogue of languages. It was first issued in 1951 and is now published by SIL Global, an American evangelical Christian non-profit organization.
== Overview and content == Ethnologue has been published by SIL Global (formerly known as the Summer Institute of Linguistics), a Christian linguistic service organization with an international office in Dallas, Texas. The organization studies numerous minority languages to facilitate language development, and to work with speakers of such language communities in translating portions of the Bible into their languages. Despite the Christian orientation of its publisher, Ethnologue is not ideologically or theologically biased.