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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. It was first issued in 1951, and is now published by SIL International, an American evangelical Christian non-profit organization.
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- ↑ Burumakok at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ↑ Limits of Language, M. Parkvall, 2008. p.66, Small Languages. Accessed 25 April 2018.
- ↑ Eberhard, David M.; Simons, Gary F.; Fennig, Charles D., eds. (2019). "Indonesia languages". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (22nd ed.). Dallas: SIL International.