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Ethnologue—new edition for 2009

The most comprehensive reference volume of its kind, the Ethnologue catalogs the world's 6,909 known living languages. With color maps, statistical summary tables and a bibliography, it is available both in hardcover and online.

   

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Sino-Tibetan linguistics conference: Eight SIL papers

The 42nd International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics (ICSTLL 42) is being held at Payap University, Thailand. Payap is hosting the conference in connection with its 35th anniversary and is co-sponsoring in association with SIL and the Thai Royal Institute. One emphasis is on language development projects engaged in language revitalization.