<div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Hello all,<br><br>With apologies for being so late to the discussion, we
wanted to take this opportunity to call attention to an important
additional tool which fills some of the free-data niches recently
vacated by the Ethnologue's move to a pay model: the Catalogue of
Endangered Languages (ELCat) (see <a href="http://endangeredlanguages.com" target="_blank">endangeredlanguages.com</a>).
ELCat is an NSF-sponsored collaborative project by the University of
Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and Eastern Michigan University, with a website built in
collaboration with Google. ELCat's focus is on endangered languages,
meaning it includes information on roughly 46% of all the world's
languages; for these languages it provides information similar to that
found in Ethnologue and Glottolog, as well as additional information:<span class="im"><br><ul><li><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Listings of endangered languages by <a href="http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/lang/region" target="_blank">region and country</a></span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">At-a-glance overviews of language locations, speaker counts, language vitality, codes, dialects, and classifications <br></span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Language
vitality assessments using a newly designed metric, the Language
Endangerment Index (LEI) -- see Lee & Van Way's forthcoming article
in <i>Language in Society</i> for more details on the LEI. <br></span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Clear citations for all data (no citationless speaker counts!)</span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Bibliographies for each language</span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">User-submitted content such as audio and video recordings, news media, and wordlists pertaining to each endangered language</span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Functionality for users to directly submit suggested additions and corrections to ELCat data<br></span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">A
responsive editorial team, supervised by an international board of
advisors, which addresses user suggestions in a thorough and timely
manner (more general information about ELCat's organization can be found
<a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iSAD2DO2iGfDfPmx-mjyS4fVRmihzjBqgp3mamzkqt8/edit" target="_blank">here</a>)</span></li></ul></span></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">ELCat
goes to great lengths to make its information the most up-to-date and
accurate possible. We warmly encourage you to visit ELCat at its home
within the Endangered Languages Project (<a href="http://www.endangeredlanguages.com" target="_blank">www.endangeredlanguages.com</a>),
and to share any thoughts you may have on how to make ELCat's resources
better known to a wider linguistic community. And of course, if you
notice that any of ELCat's data on any language can be improved, we very
much hope you'll let us know (email <a href="mailto:feedback@endangeredlanguages.com" target="_blank">feedback@endangeredlanguages.com</a>).<br><br>Best wishes,<br>Lyle Campbell and Anna Belew (on behalf of the ELCat team)</span><div class=""><div id=":yn" class="" tabindex="0"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><img class="" src="https://ssl.gstatic.com/ui/v1/icons/mail/images/cleardot.gif"></span></div></div></div>