Ethnologue

Also known as Ethnologue: Languages of the World, ethnologue:Languages of the World, ethnologue.com

Ethnologue: Languages of the World (stylized as Ethnoloɠue) is an annual reference publication in print and online that provides statistics and other information on the living languages of the world. It is the world's most comprehensive catalogue of languages. It was first issued in 1951 and is now published by SIL Global, an American evangelical Christian non-profit organization.

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Ethnologue is a comprehensive annual reference that catalogues the world's living languages and provides statistics and information about them, making it the most complete language database available. It has been published since 1951 and is currently maintained by SIL Global, an American non-profit organization, in both print and online formats.

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Website.name: Ethnologue
Website.logo: Ethnologue.com logo.svg
Website.logo_alt: Ethnologue's logo
Website.screenshot_alt: Photo of the print 17th edition of Ethnologue
Website.screenshot_size: 270px
Website.type: Language database
Website.language: English
Website.founded: 1951
Website.location_city: Dallas
Website.location_country: United States
Website.caption: Screen of Ethnologue.com
Website.commercial: Yes
Website.founder: Richard S. Pittman
Website.owner: SIL Global
Website.registration: Required to access most content since 2019
Website.issn: 1946-9675
Website.oclc: 43349556

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Official website: www.ethnologue.com

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edition number: 19
inception: 1951-00-00
Commons category: Ethnologue
title: Ethnologue
stylized name: Ethnoloɠue

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Overview and content
History
Reception, reliability, and use
Editions
References
Bibliography
External links

== Overview and content == Ethnologue has been published by SIL Global (formerly known as the Summer Institute of Linguistics), a Christian linguistic service organization with an international office in Dallas, Texas. The organization studies numerous minority languages to facilitate language development, and to work with speakers of such language communities in translating portions of the Bible into their languages. Despite the Christian orientation of its publisher, Ethnologue is not ideologically or theologically biased.