Happy New Year!

Happy New Year from all of us here at Ethnologue Central!

Our overlords and task masters have ordered us to take a break here (not even to answer emails!), so this post will be short. As I write, we are all resting in our cells getting ready for the exciting things to come in 2015.

You may recall that 2014 was the year in which the Ethnologue became primarily an online resource (there has been a web edition for many years but prior to the 17th edition, we considered the printed books to be the "real" Ethnologue). We reversed that in 2013 and posted a revamped online edition and then in 2014 actually made the print editions derivative views of the database which we are now releasing annually.  It has been a year of adjustments and reworking of our procedures and processes.  We also added the Feedback feature so that users can comment immediately and directly on the data we are reporting. Another innovation was the addition of a shopping cart so that our country reports, maps, and global data set can all be purchased and downloaded from the website.

Over the last year we have been primarily working on restructuring our database so that we can provide even more functionality. You'll see some evidence of that in the 18th edition which we'll be releasing in 2015. More on that, next month.

We are excited about what this new year will bring, and we hope that you are too.

All the best for 2015 from all of us here.