<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Hi,<div><br></div><div>That change appears to have been made in May. I’ve just flagged the statement as needing a reference.</div><div><br></div><div>I would also be very interested to hear of such examples.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>cheers,</div><div>doug<br><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><div>On 5 Aug 2014, at 12:51, Stephen Morey <<a href="mailto:S.Morey@latrobe.edu.au">S.Morey@latrobe.edu.au</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div ocsi="0" fpstyle="1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div style="direction: ltr; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">Dear RNLD members,<br><br>The Wikipedia site on 'Ethnologue' contains the following paragraph:<br><br>"With the 17th edition,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Ethnologue</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>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<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_language" title="World language">international language</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>to 10 for an<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinct_language" title="Extinct language">extinct language</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>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><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>This has had unintended consequences: Linguists have been denied funding for documenting endangered languages because<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Ethnologue</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>rates them as "vigorous" (6); in doing so, SIL is addressing a competing concern, that missionaries generally cannot get funding to translate scripture<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>unless</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>the language is vigorous."<br><br>Does anyone know of any examples of the denial of funding for a project regarded by<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Ethnologue</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>as "vigorous"?<br><br>Stephen<br><div><br><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px;"><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px;"><div class="BodyFragment"><font size="2"><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></font></div><div class="PlainText"><font face="Arial">Website:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></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><div class="PlainText"><br><font face="Arial">Language data website:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><a href="http://sealang.net/assam"><font face="Arial">http://sealang.net/assam</font></a><font face="Arial"><br>Dictionary websites:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><a href="http://sealang.net/ahom"><font face="Arial">http://sealang.net/ahom</font></a><font face="Arial">; <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><a href="http://sealang.net/singpho"><font face="Arial">http://sealang.net/singpho</font></a><font face="Arial">;<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><a href="http://sealang.net/phake"><font face="Arial">http://sealang.net/phake</font></a><font face="Arial"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>Linguistic data archived at::<br>DoBeS: <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></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:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://elar.soas.ac.uk/">http://elar.soas.ac.uk</a></font><font face="Arial"><br>PARADISEC: <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><a href="http://www.paradisec.org.au/"><font face="Arial">http://www.paradisec.org.au</font></a><br></div><div class="PlainText"><font face="Arial"></font> </div><div class="PlainText"><font face="Arial">North East Indian Linguistics Society:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><a href="http://sealang.net/neils"><font face="Arial">http://sealang.net/neils</font></a></div></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>