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<div style="direction: ltr;font-family: Tahoma;color: #000000;font-size: 10pt;">Thank you very much for pointing that out, Rosey. I would consider that setting the default status at 'vigorous' is indeed problematic. If there is no information, the surely it
is better to say 'don't know' or something of that kind?<br>
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<b>Sent:</b> 05 August 2014 13:07<br>
<b>To:</b> Stephen Morey<br>
<b>Cc:</b> r-n-l-d<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [RNLD] Case of Funding denied for languages described as "Vigorous" in Ethnologue.<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Note also that 'vigorous' is the <i>default </i>language status - from the methodology page: "<span style="color:rgb(68,68,68); font-family:myriad-pro,'Myriad Pro','Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial; line-height:21px">Where the data were not sufficient,
we set the EGIDS default value at EGIDS 6a." Very problematic, given the limited availability of accurate population and language use data in many parts of the world.</span>
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The Wikipedia site on 'Ethnologue' contains the following paragraph:<br>
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"With the 17th edition, <i>Ethnologue</i> 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
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_language" title="World language" target="_blank">
international language</a> to 10 for an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinct_language" title="Extinct language" target="_blank">
extinct language</a> with no attempt at revival.<sup><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnologue#cite_note-12" target="_blank"><span>[</span>12<span>]</span></a></sup> This has had unintended consequences: Linguists have been denied funding for documenting
endangered languages because <i>Ethnologue</i> rates them as "vigorous" (6); in doing so, SIL is addressing a competing concern, that missionaries generally cannot get funding to translate scripture
<i>unless</i> the language is vigorous."<br>
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Does anyone know of any examples of the denial of funding for a project regarded by
<i>Ethnologue</i> as "vigorous"?<br>
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Stephen<br>
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Centre for Research on Language Diversity<br>
La Trobe University<br>
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<font face="Arial">Language data website: </font><a href="http://sealang.net/assam" target="_blank"><font face="Arial">http://sealang.net/assam</font></a><font face="Arial"><br>
Dictionary websites: </font><a href="http://sealang.net/ahom" target="_blank"><font face="Arial">http://sealang.net/ahom</font></a><font face="Arial">;
</font><a href="http://sealang.net/singpho" target="_blank"><font face="Arial">http://sealang.net/singpho</font></a><font face="Arial">;
</font><a href="http://sealang.net/phake" target="_blank"><font face="Arial">http://sealang.net/phake</font></a><font face="Arial">
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Linguistic data archived at::<br>
DoBeS: </font><font face="Arial"><a href="http://www.mpi.nl/DoBeS" target="_blank">http://www.mpi.nl/DoBeS</a></font><font face="Arial"> and follow a link to projects, then Tangsa, Tai and Singpho in North East India<br>
ELAR: <a href="http://elar.soas.ac.uk" target="_blank">http://elar.soas.ac.uk</a></font><font face="Arial"><br>
PARADISEC: </font><a href="http://www.paradisec.org.au" target="_blank"><font face="Arial">http://www.paradisec.org.au</font></a><br>
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<div><font face="Arial">North East Indian Linguistics Society: </font><a href="http://sealang.net/neils" target="_blank"><font face="Arial">http://sealang.net/neils</font></a><font face="Arial">
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