24.1281, FYI: New Edition of Ethnologue Released Online

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Subject: 24.1281, FYI: New Edition of Ethnologue Released Online

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Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 14:44:03
From: Gary Simons [gary_simons at sil.org]
Subject: New Edition of Ethnologue Released Online

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SIL International is pleased to announce the release of the 17th edition of
Ethnologue at:

http://www.ethnologue.com

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).

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.

The overall finding is that of 7,105 known living languages:

* 10% have reached the relative safety of institutional transmission of a
standardized form
* 22% are in vigorous use with standardization underway
* 35% are in vigorous use with no development efforts
* 21% are in trouble because they are losing speakers but are still used in
the child-bearing generation
* 13% are dying with the only fluent users (if any) being older than the
child-bearing generation

In addition, this edition of Ethnologue lists 375 languages that were known to
be in use in 1950 and which are extinct today.
 



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