Updates to Athabaskan notes

[Harald Hammarström]

I might add that a couple of people of us at MPI-Leipzig are working on a
"language"-inventory based on varieties reported in some published document.
The user can then choose or define whatever level of grouping he/she wants
for his/her purposes. It is expected
to be out (ie. online) in 2011.

As much as there are problems with the Ethnologue, the fact is that
linguists/the linguistic community have not produced anything remotely as
useful as the Ethnologue. I think many complaints that E is not reflecting a
linguistically informed reality should be
re-directed to the linguistic community, asking why there is no a
linguistically informed catalogue produced by the linguistic
community.

all the best,

H

2010/12/29 Claire Bowern <clairebowern at gmail.com>

> On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 5:40 PM, James Crippen <jcrippen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 11:23, Harald Hammarström
> > <h.hammarstrom at let.ru.nl> wrote:
> >> I am writing a review of the 16th ed of the ethnologue
> >
> > As a note to the general Athabaskanist public, we need to write to the
> > Ethnologue editors more. Their stuff on Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit is
> > obviously based on outdated information from older sources. Instead of
> > scoffing we should be feeding them more reliable data.
>
> Good luck - plenty of people have written to Ethnologue with
> corrections and have received no response. It's really unfortunate
> that they are apparently so closed to corrections from experts in the
> families. This problem was brought to Gary Simons' attention at a
> recent meeting and his response was basically that they don't have
> time to do anything with them, so they just ignore them.
> Claire
>
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