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Since 2007, Ethnologue relies only on this standard, administered by SIL International, [16] to determine what is listed as a language. [5] In addition to choosing a primary name for a language, Ethnologue provides listings of other name(s) for the language and any dialects that are used by its speakers, government, foreigners and neighbors ...
Languages which became extinct before 1950 are the purview of Linguist List and are being gradually removed from Ethnologue; they are listed as an addendum to this page. There are 48 unclassified languages in the 25th edition of Ethnologue published in 2022.
World map of linguistic diversity index (linearly proportional to the shading intensity). Data is from the 18th edition of Ethnologue: Languages of the World.. Linguistic diversity index (LDI) may refer to either Greenberg's (language) Diversity Index [1] or the related Index of Linguistic Diversity (ILD) from Terralingua, which measures changes in the underlying LDI over time.
This is a list of languages by total number of speakers. It is difficult to define what constitutes a language as opposed to a dialect . For example, Chinese and Arabic are sometimes considered single languages, but each includes several mutually unintelligible varieties , and so they are sometimes considered language families instead.
The following 660 language names are listed as primary names in Ethnologue 14 or 15, and some from Ethnologue 16 which were changed by 2012, so that when first listed here they were red links but did not duplicate red links on Wikipedia:WikiProject Languages/Language articles by ISO code. (There are others which already had redirects, and so ...
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This template is designed for use in the reference section of a language article. It links to the appropriate article at the relevant edition of the Ethnologue. Template parameters Parameter Description Type Status Language code 1 The ISO 639-3 code for the language. String suggested Link text 2 The link text to be displayed. This may be useful if the Ethnologue name differs from the page name ...
This is a list of all primary language names in the 18th edition (2015) of Ethnologue, including the 'smart' apostrophes used on their website, with links to the corresponding article in Wikipedia. The names or their spelling may differ from the primary ISO 639-3 names. Names may not be unique, in which case they're listed more than once.