New Edition of Ethnologue Released Online<br>
<br><br>
SIL International is pleased to announce the release of the 17th edition of Ethnologue at:<br><br><a href="http://www.ethnologue.com">http://www.ethnologue.com</a><br><br>This
on-line work features country-by-country listings of 7,105 known living
languages, including nearly 60,000 updates over information in the
previous edition (published 2009).<br><br>Newly introduced in this
edition is an estimate of the level of development versus endangerment
for every language listed. These estimates use the EGIDS, or Expanded
Graded Intergenerational Disruption Scale (which is based on the GIDS
developed by Joshua Fishman in his 1991 book, Reversing Language Shift).
For every country, a profile of language status is given as a bar graph
of the EGIDS levels of all its languages. Summary graphs are also given
to give an overvie of the language situation in the 22 UN regions, 5
major world areas, and the world at large.<br><br>The overall finding is that of 7,105 known living languages:<br><br>* 10% have reached the relative safety of institutional transmission of a standardized form<br>* 22% are in vigorous use with standardization underway<br>
* 35% are in vigorous use with no development efforts<br>* 21% are in trouble because they are losing speakers but are still used in the child-bearing generation<br>* 13% are dying with the only fluent users (if any) being older than the child-bearing generation<br>
<br>In addition, this edition of Ethnologue lists 375 languages that were known to be in use in 1950 and which are extinct today.<br><br><a href="http://linguistlist.org/issues/24/24-1281.html">http://linguistlist.org/issues/24/24-1281.html</a><br clear="all">
<br>-- <br>**************************************<br>N.b.: Listing on the lgpolicy-list is merely intended as a service to its members<br>and implies neither approval, confirmation nor agreement by the owner or sponsor of the list as to the veracity of a message's contents. Members who disagree with a message are encouraged to post a rebuttal, and to write directly to the original sender of any offensive message. A copy of this may be forwarded to this list as well. (H. Schiffman, Moderator)<br>
<br>For more information about the lgpolicy-list, go to <a href="https://groups.sas.upenn.edu/mailman/">https://groups.sas.upenn.edu/mailman/</a><br>listinfo/lgpolicy-list<br>*******************************************