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?
It is a catalog of the languages of the world, with information about where they are spoken, an estimate of the number of speakers, what language family they are in, alternate names, names of dialects, other sociolinguistic and demographic information, dates of published Bibles, a name index, a language family index, and language maps.
= What exactly is your professional activity?
I am the editor of the 8th to 14th editions, 1971-2000.
= What do you think of the debate about copyright on the Web?
Any copyrights should be respected, just as with print matter.