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The Ethnologue is published by SIL International ( formerly known as the Summer Institute of Linguistics ), a Christian linguistic service organization, which studies numerous minority languages, to facilitate language development and to work with the speakers of such language communities to translate portions of the Bible in their language.
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There are about 250 Bantu languages by the criterion of mutual intelligibility, though the distinction between language and dialect is often unclear, and Ethnologue counts 535 languages.
Ethnologue: Languages of the World is a web and print publication containing statistics for 6, 909 languages in the 16th edition, released in 2009.
In addition to choosing a primary name for the language, Ethnologue also gives some of the names by which a language is called by its speakers, by the government, by foreigners and by neighbors, as well as how it has been named and referenced historically, regardless of which designation is considered official, politically correct or offensive or by whom.
William Bright, then editor of Language: Journal of the Linguistic Society of America, wrote of Ethnologue that it " is indispensable for any reference shelf on the languages of the world.
However, Ethnologue is a guide to missionary work that was never intended as a survey of the world's languages, and the data is frequently faulty.
The publishing history of Ethnologue is as follows:
The total for all Nilo-Saharan languages in Ethnologue 16 is 38 – 39 million.
It is also classified as being part of a Tamil language family, which alongside Tamil proper, also includes the languages of about 35 ethno-linguistic groups such as the Irula, and Yerukula languages ( see SIL Ethnologue ).
According to the 2001 Census of India, Telugu is the language with the third largest number of native speakers in India ( 74 million ), thirteenth in the Ethnologue list of most-spoken languages worldwide, and most spoken Dravidian language.
Coptic is an extinct language, according to Ethnologue, in that it has no native speakers.
Ethnologue reports that it is a Tetun-based creole.
Zulu is the most widely spoken home language in South Africa ( 24 % of the population ) as well as being understood by over 50 % of the population ( Ethnologue 2005 ).
According to Ethnologue, it is the second most widely spoken Bantu language after Shona.
Combining the Ethnologue figures with strong population growth in Nepal, the assumption of 20 million people with Nepali as their mother tongue is a reasonable estimate for 2006.
Bosha † is unclassified ; Ethnologue lists it as a dialect of Kafa, but notes it may be a distinct language.
According to Ethnologue, there are 200 Afro-Seminole Creole speakers in Bracketville, which makes the town the only one in the country where this creole is still spoken.
Half a century later, the number of speakers is reportedly under 300 ( according to Ethnologue ).
The Konkani language in Kerala is also sometimes written in the Malayalam script ,< ref name =" Lo ">— According to ISO 639-3 and Ethnologue, Konkani (< tt > knn </ tt >) and Goan Konkani (< tt > gom </ tt >) are two dialects.
One of the most active research agencies is SIL International, which maintains a database, Ethnologue, kept up to date by the contributions of linguists globally.
The ethnic Bashkir population is estimated at roughly 2 million people ( 2009 SIL Ethnologue ), of which about 1. 4 million speak the Bashkir language, a Turkic language of the Kypchak group.
Hazaragi is a dialect of the Persian language ( recognized as a language by Ethnologue ), with loanwords borrowed from Mongolic.
The exact number of native speakers is hard to determine due to sociolinguistic issues but Ethnologue puts the number of speakers in Ireland at 6, 000, and 86, 000 worldwide.
Ethnologue and published
The Ethnologue, a guide to the world's languages, is published by SIL.
The 16th edition of the Ethnologue was published in 2009 and uses the ISO 639-3 standard, which assigns 3-letter codes to languages.
Ethnologue quotes a source published in 1990 ( and therefore presumably reflecting the situation in the late 1980s ), according to which there were 60 fluent speakers of Lushootseed, evenly divided between the northern and southern dialects.
* Clarification: Ethnologue, a reference work published by SIL International, has cataloged the world ’ s known living languages, and it estimates that 417 languages are on the verge of extinction.
Ethnologue and by
The four living dialects of Breton, as identified by Ethnologue, are ( named in Breton ) leoneg, tregerieg, gwenedeg, and kerneveg.
The 2001 population of 341, 000 speakers on the island given by Ethnologue exceeds either census.
Ethnologue follows the criteria used by ISO 639-3, which are based primarily on mutual intelligibility.
North Coastal Standard Bikol ( Ethnologue name: Coastal Bikol ) or simply, Northern Bikol, is spoken by over 2. 4 million people ( figure dates back from the 1990 Census ) with native speakers in various areas in all the provinces of the Bicol Region: Camarines Norte, Camarines Sur, Albay, Catanduanes, Sorsogon, and Masbate.
Southern Coastal and Inland Bikol ( Ethnologue name: Inland Bikol ), or simply, Southern Bikol, is spoken by over 1. 1 million people living mainly in the southwestern area of Camarines Sur as well as parts of western Albay and western Sorsogon.
Northern Catanduanes Bicolano ( Ethnologue name: Pandan ) is spoken by about 80, 000 people in the Northern Catanduanes towns of Caramoran, Pandan, Bagamanoc, Panganiban, and Viga.
This was the scheme used by Ethnologue prior to Ross's classification ( below ).
Later, the szl code also used among others by linguistic entities as Ethnologue and Linguist List.
According to the Ethnologue, the Lozi language is " spoken as lingua franca by all East Caprivians.
Lexical similarity between Powari dialects is reported as 60 %– 87 % by SIL Ethnologue, and lexical similarity between Powari and Bagheli i as 49 %– 65 %.
Lombard is considered a minority language, structurally separated from Italian, by the Ethnologue reference catalogue and by the UNESCO Red Book on Endangered Languages.
Today it is mostly spoken by some elderly women ( the Ethnologue entry lists 200 native speakers ); most of the island's community speaks Portuguese ; some also speak Forro.
Ethnologue and SIL
SIL Ethnologue lists six " living " Celtic languages, of which four have retained a substantial number of native speakers.
In 1984, the Ethnologue released a three-letter coding system, called an " SIL code ", to identify each language that it describes.
Of the twenty languages with the largest numbers of native speakers according to SIL Ethnologue, twelve are Indo-European: Spanish, English, Hindi, Portuguese, Bengali, Russian, German, Marathi, French, Italian, Punjabi, and Urdu, accounting for over 1. 7 billion native speakers.
SIL Ethnologue lists a total of 69 individual languages spoken in Kenya.
As of early 2009, SIL Ethnologue catalogued 6, 909 living human languages.
SIL International in its Ethnologue subdivides the Senufo languages in six groups.
Estimates of Zande speakers reported in SIL Ethnologue ( 2009 ) are 730, 000 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 62, 000 in the Central African Republic ( 1996 estimate ) and 350, 000 in Sudan ( 1982 estimate ), amounting to a total population of just above 1 million.
The SIL Ethnologue in 2009 documents an additional 189, 000 Tibetan language speakers living in India, 5, 280 in Nepal, and 4, 800 in Bhutan.
* Languages of India ( SIL Ethnologue list )
SIL Ethnologue ( 2005 ) lists 473 out of 6, 909 living languages inventorized ( 6. 8 %) as " nearly extinct ", indicating cases where " only a few elderly speakers are still living ".
SIL provides a database, Ethnologue, of its research into the world's languages.
SIL International's Ethnologue divides Tungusic into two sub-families Northern and Southern, with Evenki alongside Even and Negidal in the Northern sub-family, and the Southern family itself subdivided into Southwestern ( among which Manchu ) and Southeastern ( Nanai and others ).
According to SIL / Ethnologue, there are 200, 000 Gen-speakers in Togo in 1991, and 130, 000 in Benin in 2006.
* SIL Ethnologue
Scanian was in the 15th edition of the Ethnologue ( 2005 ) classified as a regional language by SIL International, but before the latest update ( 2009 ), the Swedish representative to ISO / TC 37, the technical committee overseeing ISO 639, required that Scanian be removed from the ISO / DIS 639-3, the draft just prior to the final draft FDIS, or a positive vote from Sweden would not be forthcoming.
* SIL Ethnologue on Papua, Indonesia
) Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Fifteenth edition SIL International, Dallas, Tex.
SIL Ethnologue distinguishes five dialect groups: Urmian, Northern, Central, Western, and Sapna, each with sub-dialects.
* SIL Ethnologue Listing on Gadsup language
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