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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">international language</a> to 10 for an
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinct_language" title="Extinct language">
extinct language</a> with no attempt at revival.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnologue#cite_note-12"><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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<div class="PlainText"><font face="Arial">Stephen Morey<br>
Australian Research Council Future Fellow<br>
Centre for Research on Language Diversity<br>
La Trobe University<br>
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<div class="PlainText"><font face="Arial">Website: </font><a href="http://www.latrobe.edu.au/rclt/StaffPages/morey.htm"><font face="Arial">http://www.latrobe.edu.au/humanities/about/staff/profile?uname=SMorey</font></a></div>
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<font face="Arial">Language data website: </font><a href="http://sealang.net/assam"><font face="Arial">http://sealang.net/assam</font></a><font face="Arial"><br>
Dictionary websites: </font><a href="http://sealang.net/ahom"><font face="Arial">http://sealang.net/ahom</font></a><font face="Arial">;
</font><a href="http://sealang.net/singpho"><font face="Arial">http://sealang.net/singpho</font></a><font face="Arial">;
</font><a href="http://sealang.net/phake"><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">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">http://elar.soas.ac.uk</a></font><font face="Arial"><br>
PARADISEC: </font><a href="http://www.paradisec.org.au"><font face="Arial">http://www.paradisec.org.au</font></a><br>
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<div class="PlainText"><font face="Arial">North East Indian Linguistics Society: </font>
<a href="http://sealang.net/neils"><font face="Arial">http://sealang.net/neils</font></a><font face="Arial">
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