<div>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</div>
<div>to be out (ie. online) in 2011.</div><div><br></div><div>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</div>
<div>re-directed to the linguistic community, asking why there is no a linguistically informed catalogue produced by the linguistic</div><div>community.</div><div><br></div><div>all the best,</div><div><br></div><div>H</div>
<div><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">2010/12/29 Claire Bowern <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:clairebowern@gmail.com">clairebowern@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 5:40 PM, James Crippen <<a href="mailto:jcrippen@gmail.com">jcrippen@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 11:23, Harald Hammarström<br>
> <<a href="mailto:h.hammarstrom@let.ru.nl">h.hammarstrom@let.ru.nl</a>> wrote:<br>
>> I am writing a review of the 16th ed of the ethnologue<br>
><br>
> As a note to the general Athabaskanist public, we need to write to the<br>
> Ethnologue editors more. Their stuff on Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit is<br>
> obviously based on outdated information from older sources. Instead of<br>
> scoffing we should be feeding them more reliable data.<br>
<br>
</div>Good luck - plenty of people have written to Ethnologue with<br>
corrections and have received no response. It's really unfortunate<br>
that they are apparently so closed to corrections from experts in the<br>
families. This problem was brought to Gary Simons' attention at a<br>
recent meeting and his response was basically that they don't have<br>
time to do anything with them, so they just ignore them.<br>
<font color="#888888">Claire<br>
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