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Thread for non-linguists: The community of academic #linguists are currently pretty angry at #Ethnologue the world's major registry for languages varieties and information because they are monetizing their data and making access subscription based instead of open.

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#Ethnologue is the registration authority for ISO 693-3, the official system of language codes. ISO codes are used as labels, so that for a book to be registered in a given language it is tagged by the code for that language. Now linguists have to pay to see the data /2.
Ethnologue is an affiliate of the Summer Institute of Linguistics which is itself an affiliate of Wycliffe Bible Translators. SIL is a missionary organization that has the basic aim of finding out how many languages need their own Bible, and then translate them.
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