Ethnologue Classification - Revision history

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imported>Ed: New page: [http://www.ethnologue.com Ethnologue] is a print and online publication that provides extremely well researched and detailed information on both contemporary and historic language usages ...

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New page: [http://www.ethnologue.com Ethnologue] is a print and online publication that provides extremely well researched and detailed information on both contemporary and historic language usages ...

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[http://www.ethnologue.com Ethnologue] is a print and online publication that provides extremely well researched and detailed information on both contemporary and historic language usages (and development) around the world.

Of particular use to researchers is the [http://www.ethnologue.com/ethno_docs/distribution.asp?by=family summary of language usages by family and country]. Other [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_spoken_languages reference information on languages by country is available from wikipedia].

The Ethnologue data was used to determine the dominant contemporary language family for each [[UN GeoRegion Codes | United Nations recognised country]] ([http://www.edegan.com/repository/Ethnologue-CountryDominantLanguage.txt Ethnologue-CountryDominantLanguage.txt]). The language families were then grouped in 'pseudo-families'. The pseudo-families are useful but strictly 'illegimate' unit of aggregation. Ethnologue recognizes six dominant top-level language families and a total of 94 contemporary language families. Of these, we group the 40 most used languages in 8 pseudo-families ([http://www.edegan.com/repository/Ethnologue-LanguageFamilies.txt Ethnologue-LanguageFamilies.txt] for our classification purposes.

The 8 pseudo-families and the 40 families are:
*Afro-Asiatic
**Berber
**Chadic
**Cushitic
**Semitic
*Altaic
**Korean
**Japonic
**Mongolic
**Tungusic
**Turkic
**Tungestic
**OtherAltaic
*Indo-European
**Baltic
**Celtic
**Germanic
**Indo-Aryan
**Iranian
**Romance
**Greek
**Basque
*Sino-Tibetan
**Chinese
**Tibeto-Burman
*Austro*
**Austro-Asiatic
**Austronesian
**Papuan
**Tai-Kadai
**Dravidian
*Slavic
**Albanian
**Armenian
**Slavic
**Caucasus
**Uralic
*African
**Niger-Congo
**Nilo-Saharan
**Paleosiberian
**Khoisan
**OtherAfrican
*Native
**NativeAmerican
**AustralianAboriginal
**Eskimo-Aleut

[[file: Ethnologue-AllLangugeFamilies.jpg | Ethnologue Language Families (C) Wikicommons]]

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	[http://www.ethnologue.com Ethnologue] is a print and online publication that provides extremely well researched and detailed information on both contemporary and historic language usages (and development) around the world.		[http://www.ethnologue.com Ethnologue] is a print and online publication that provides extremely well researched and detailed information on both contemporary and historic language usages (and development) around the world.

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 The Ethnologue data was used to determine the dominant contemporary language family for each [[UN GeoRegion Codes | United Nations recognised country]] ([http://www.edegan.com/repository/Ethnologue-CountryDominantLanguage.txt Ethnologue-CountryDominantLanguage.txt]). The language families were then grouped in 'pseudo-families'. The pseudo-families are useful but strictly 'illegimate' unit of aggregation. Ethnologue recognizes six dominant top-level language families and a total of 94 contemporary language families. Of these, we group the 40 most used languages in 8 pseudo-families ([http://www.edegan.com/repository/Ethnologue-LanguageFamilies.txt Ethnologue-LanguageFamilies.txt]) for our classification purposes.
 The 8 pseudo-families and the 40 families are:
 *Afro-Asiatic
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 **AustralianAboriginal
 **Eskimo-Aleut
 [[file: Ethnologue-AllLangugeFamilies.jpg | Ethnologue Language Families (C) Wikicommons]]

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 Of particular use to researchers is the [http://www.ethnologue.com/ethno_docs/distribution.asp?by=family summary of language usages by family and country]. Other [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_spoken_languages reference information on languages by country is available from wikipedia].
-The Ethnologue data was used to determine the dominant contemporary language family for each [[UN GeoRegion Codes | United Nations recognised country]] ([http://www.edegan.com/repository/Ethnologue-CountryDominantLanguage.txt Ethnologue-CountryDominantLanguage.txt]). The language families were then grouped in 'pseudo-families'. The pseudo-families are useful but strictly 'illegimate' unit of aggregation. Ethnologue recognizes six dominant top-level language families and a total of 94 contemporary language families. Of these, we group the 40 most used languages in 8 pseudo-families ([http://www.edegan.com/repository/Ethnologue-LanguageFamilies.txt Ethnologue-LanguageFamilies.txt] for our classification purposes.
+The Ethnologue data was used to determine the dominant contemporary language family for each [[UN GeoRegion Codes | United Nations recognised country]] ([http://www.edegan.com/repository/Ethnologue-CountryDominantLanguage.txt Ethnologue-CountryDominantLanguage.txt]). The language families were then grouped in 'pseudo-families'. The pseudo-families are useful but strictly 'illegimate' unit of aggregation. Ethnologue recognizes six dominant top-level language families and a total of 94 contemporary language families. Of these, we group the 40 most used languages in 8 pseudo-families ([http://www.edegan.com/repository/Ethnologue-LanguageFamilies.txt Ethnologue-LanguageFamilies.txt]) for our classification purposes.
 The 8 pseudo-families and the 40 families are: