Ethnologue

Ethnologue
Ethnologue's logo
Type of businessNon-profit organization
Type of site
Language database
Available inEnglish
Founded1951
Headquarters,
United States
OwnerSIL International, United States
Founder(s)Richard S. Pittman
Editors
  • David M. Eberhard
  • Gary F. Simons
  • Charles D. Fennig
URLwww.ethnologue.com Edit this at Wikidata
CommercialYes
RegistrationRequired to access most content since 2019[1]
ISSN1946-9675
OCLC number43349556

Ethnologue: Languages of the World 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.[2] It was first issued in 1951, and is now published by SIL International, an American evangelical Christian non-profit organization.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference ScienceOrg2020 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Brunn, Stanley D.; Kehrein, Roland, eds. (2020). Handbook of the Changing World Language Map. Vol. 1. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. p. 46. ISBN 978-3-030-02438-3. OCLC 1125944248.