The Ethnologue is a catalogue of more than 6,700 languages. A paper version and a CD-ROM are also available.
[Interview 18/08/1998 // Interview 15/01/2000]
*Interview of August 18, 1998
= How did using the Internet change your professional life?
We have found the Internet to be useful, convenient, and supplementary to our work. Our main use of it is for e-mail. It is a convenient means of making information more widely available to a wider audience than the printed Ethnologue provides.
On the other hand, many people in the audience we wish to reach do not have access to computers, so in some ways the Ethnologue on the Internet reaches a limited audience who own computers. I am particularly thinking of people in the so-called "third world".
= How do you see the growth of a multilingual Web?
Multilingual web pages are more widely useful, but much more costly to maintain. We have had requests for the Ethnologue in a few other languages, but we do not have the personnel or funds to do the translation or maintenance, since it is constantly being updated.
*Interview of January 15, 2000
= Can you tell us about the Ethnologue?