Credits

Acknowledgments

The compilation of a body of information as large as Ethnologue over the last seven decades is the result of the cooperation and participation of a multitude of contributors. Lamentably, space does not permit a comprehensive listing of every contributor since Ethnologue came into existence. This edition has benefited particularly from the contributions of researchers, language fieldworkers, and users of the languages who have freely given their time and expertise to improve the accuracy and quality of the data. We are especially grateful to those who have joined our team of Field Contributors, as well as to a growing number of online registered users who contribute valuable input through the Contribute tabs on the website.

Gary F. Simons, as Executive Editor, has provided the oversight and coordination for the task of bringing this new edition into existence, as well as guiding the process of change as we seek to keep improving the content and coverage of Ethnologue. David M. Eberhard, as General Editor, has provided overall direction for the editorial staff and for the data gathering activities of Ethnologue. Alison J. Robinson, as Managing Editor, has supervised the data entry process, tracked changes, dealt with thousands of electronic and hard copy communications, and has done a great deal of in-depth research in response to communications from users. M. Paul Lewis, having stepped down after 12 years in the role of General Editor, has continued to provide us with valuable assistance as an Editorial Consultant. The editorial team is augmented by the work of Albert Bickford as Sign Languages Editor, Pamela Echered as Americas Editor, Lorna Priest Evans as Script and Writing Systems Editor, Charles D. Fennig as Major Languages Editor, and Linda Simons as Bibliographer. Rounding out the editorial staff is a pair of research assistants who have contributed greatly through their data gathering efforts: Beth Brye and Kiersten Henkel.

The language maps have been produced under the direction of SIL’s Lead Cartographer, Matt Benjamin, by Joe Armfield, Mark Cline, Marcus Love, Esther Morrow, and Mitchell Wimbush with additional research by Brad Frisher, Irene Tucker, Blessing Walbila, and with quality assurance from Beth Brye and technical assistance from David Hildebrand, Jacob Kirkham, and Stephen Tucker. Significant help in updating the maps for this edition has been received through personal communications from the following: Karl Anderbeck, Stan Anomby, Alessandro Arioli, Todd Bequette, Douglas Boone, Lissander Brasca, Nate Cheeseman, Richard Gravina, Wira Kafryawan, Florence Gilliam Kayad, Paulus Kieviet, Philip Lambrecht, Andrea Lunardon, Mark Miller, Christina Natasha, Aaron Ogburn, Eric Pawley, Carleen Pedersen, Judith Sawers, Hanif Sikumbang, Su-Hie Ting, and Ian Tupper.

Ethnologue benefits greatly from the close cooperation of Janell Nordmoe, ISO 639-3 Registrar, who has assisted us in keeping our database aligned with the ISO 639-3 inventory of identified languages.

The updated information reported in this edition reflects the cooperation and communications over the last year from hundreds of researchers in the field as well as members of language communities who have made contact with us to contribute updated information. The change records in our database show that 223 additional people beyond the project staff named above have contributed at least one update to the database since the previous edition was published one year ago.

We want to give special recognition to our most prolific contributors. Each of the following 13 people contributed more than 30 updates to this edition: Abdalla Asossa, Nate Cheeseman, Terry Dehart, Aleksandr Ermanov, Rynj Gonzales, Carlos González Mireles, Paul Hattaway, Eric Johnson, Roman Kim, David Roberts, Scott Smith, and Ian Tupper.

The list of contributors continues with the following 75 who contributed 5 or more updates: Rachel Agheyisi, Sahriar Alam, Tiffany Archer, Aleksandr Arefyev, Rick Aschmann, André Auert, Murat Badaev, Hugh Battye, Justin Beckham, Todd Bequette, Olivier Bernaz, David Blake, Heather Bliss, Douglas W. Boone, Denise Bryce, Lidija Čanda, Jonathan Chin, Bronwen Cleaver, Beth Cook, Ken Decker, Antoine Dusséaux, Katelem Edeh, Owen Edwards, Hana El-Shazli, Dwayne Emberson, Ruth Gaved, Fabio Gibilisco, Jeff Good, Karen Grunow-Hårsta, Tom Güldemann, Sushila Gurung, James Hafford, Sunday Hassan, Richard Havinga, Nicholas Haydock, Samuel Henriquez, Sulev Iva, Joshua Jensen, Linda Jordan, Branislav Kadlecik, Theo Kang, Mari-Sisko Khadgi, Savannah Kulig, Sarah Lukkarila, Steve Marlett, Arman Martirosyan, Cheryl Mason, Matthew Morhart, Bill Morrison, Esther Morrow, Charles Murphey, Shuichiro Nakao, Janell Nordmoe, Aaron Ogburn, Jean Pacquement, Daniel Paul, Lucy Peal, Tihomir Rangelov, Neil Rees, MyoSook Sohn, Makara Sok, Nathan Statezni, Bohuslav Straka, Ashish Subramanian, Janel Swenson, Timothy Terna, Sophia To, Andreas Tricahyadi, Nelson C. Tschonghongei, Joe Valentin, Viveka Velupillai, Craig Volker, Zihao Wang, and Matteo Zamboni.

And the list could continue with 119 more names of those who made at least one contribution, each of which was significant because it allowed us to publish better information. To all of our contributors we are deeply grateful for we recognize that the success of our efforts depends on their generosity.