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Organisation. Ethnologue, Languages of the World, souvent abrégé en Ethnologue, est une publication de SIL International visant à inventorier toutes les langues du monde. Publiée en version sur papier depuis 1951, elle est également disponible sur internet depuis 1997.
Jan 18, 2022 · English. 1248 pages : 27 cm. The most comprehensive available reference source of world languages. Languages are listed alphabetically by primary name under the country of the main population. Information includes alternate names, dialects, number of speakers, multilingualism, and other demographic and sociolinguistic information.
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- Europe. 1.1 Indo-European. Most of Europe’s languages belong to the Indo-European family, which has the following branches: Celtic, Germanic, Italic, Greek, Albanian, Balto-Slavic, Armenian, Indo-Iranian, Anatolian, and Tocharian.
- Africa. Africa’s extraordinary linguistic diversity is threatened by the possible extinction of half or more of its languages, which some predict by the end of the century due to competition from other languages.
- Asia. Asia is home to 60% of the world’s population and nearly 30% of the world’s languages. These are grouped into just a handful of major families, leaving out several important isolates, and due to long periods of contact, there’s less diversity than one might expect.
- Oceania. Oceania, which includes Australia and most of the island territories of the central and southern Pacific and Indian oceans, is home to the Austronesian family and to two very large language groups, the Australian and the Papuan groups.
Jan 1, 2016 · About 7,000 languages are spoken around the world today. The actual number depends on where the line is drawn between language and dialect—an arbitrary decision because languages are always in ...
3.1 Indo-European Languages of Iran and South Asia 76 3.1.1 Iranian Languages 78 3.1.2 Indo-Aryan Languages 81 3.2 Dravidian Languages 87 3.3 Other Languages of South Asia 91 3.4 Focus on: Universals and the Parametric Theory of Language 95 Do It Yourself 103 4 Languages of Northern Eurasia 108 4.1 Finno-Ugric Languages 110 4.2 Other Uralic ...
Language is a structured system of communication that consists of grammar and vocabulary. It is the primary means by which humans convey meaning, both in spoken and written forms, and may also be conveyed through sign languages. Human language is characterized by its cultural and historical diversity, with significant variations observed ...
