Welcome to Ethnologue
is the go-to source for language research, analysis & decision-making
Ethnologue: Languages of the World is the world’s most comprehensive database on the world’s living languages. 70+ years of experience in collecting, curating and publishing the defacto guide on language, starting from just $480 US per annum.
5 million data points for 7,170 languages in 242 countries
2,500 expert data contributors with 1,000s of annual updates
15,000 citations in Google Scholar + 100s of media citations
70+ years in linguistics, architect of EGIDS and DLS language scales
600,000 users p.a., including Universities, Governments and Big Tech
Datavis, datasets and data science from our ‘Derivation’ team.
Explore the Languages of the World
Understand Every Language
through our software, product, and datasets & consulting options.