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Endangerment
How many endangered languages are there in the world today?
What is the difference between a dormant language and an extinct language?
How many languages of the world have less than 1,000 speakers? Less than 100 speakers? Less than 10 speakers?
What is an endangered language?
What is EGIDS? How is it used?
Languages
How many language families are there?
What are the 10 largest / most spoken languages in the world?
What is the difference between a dormant language and an extinct language?
What is the largest language family? In terms of languages? In terms of speakers?
Which countries have the most languages
Which language is spoken in the most countries? How many countries?
How can I learn to speak language X? Can you send me a dictionary or language learning materials?
How many international languages (EGIDS 0) are there?
How many languages are there in the world?
What country has the most languages?
What happened to the Ethnologue's identification of 'national' and 'official' languages?
Why are there so many more living languages listed in the 17th edition (7106) than there are in the 16th (6909)?
What is EGIDS? How is it used?
Countries
Which countries have the most languages
Can you send me more information about country X?
On what basis are the countries grouped into regions?
What country has the most languages?
Which major country has the highest density or concentration of languages?
Why are there some countries without a language map?
Why is your total world population significantly lower than the actual population?
Publishing
How do I purchase a book? Can I purchase a volume of just one part of the world?
Is the Ethnologue published in any other language besides English? Why not?
May I translate your website into my language?
Why are there some countries without a language map?
Development
How many languages in the world are unwritten?
Products
How do I purchase a book? Can I purchase a volume of just one part of the world?
Where can I find previous editions of the Ethnologue?