[RNLD] Case of Funding denied for languages described as "Vigorous" in Ethnologue.

[Doug Marmion]

Hi,

That change appears to have been made in May. I’ve just flagged the statement as needing a reference.

I would also be very interested to hear of such examples.


cheers,
doug


On 5 Aug 2014, at 12:51, Stephen Morey <S.Morey at latrobe.edu.au> wrote:

> Dear RNLD members,
> 
> The Wikipedia site on 'Ethnologue' contains the following paragraph:
> 
> "With the 17th edition, Ethnologue introduced a numerical code for language status, along the lines of Fishman’s Graded Inter-generational Disruption Scale, that ranks a language from 0 for an international language to 10 for an extinct language with no attempt at revival.[12] This has had unintended consequences: Linguists have been denied funding for documenting endangered languages because Ethnologue rates them as "vigorous" (6); in doing so, SIL is addressing a competing concern, that missionaries generally cannot get funding to translate scripture unless the language is vigorous."
> 
> Does anyone know of any examples of the denial of funding for a project regarded by Ethnologue as "vigorous"?
> 
> Stephen
> 
> Stephen Morey
> Australian Research Council Future Fellow
> Centre for Research on Language Diversity
> La Trobe University
> Website: http://www.latrobe.edu.au/humanities/about/staff/profile?uname=SMorey
> 
> Language data website: http://sealang.net/assam
> Dictionary websites: http://sealang.net/ahom;  http://sealang.net/singpho; http://sealang.net/phake 
> 
> Linguistic data archived at::
> DoBeS:  http://www.mpi.nl/DoBeS and follow a link to projects, then Tangsa, Tai and Singpho in North East India
> ELAR: http://elar.soas.ac.uk
> PARADISEC:  http://www.paradisec.org.au
>  
> North East Indian Linguistics Society: http://sealang.net/neils

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