Ethnologue – Languages of the World
The website I choose for my walkthrough is: https://www.ethnologue.com/https://www.ethnologue.com/
1. Who made this website?
The creator of this website is Richard S. Pittman. He was one the leader of the Summer Institute of Linguistics and have been named director of the Mexican branch over there. He was an educator, mentor and also writer. Richard S. Pittman created this website so it could be easier for him to share bible translation all around the round with his colleagues and also all the others languages researcher, because the creator was a practising Christian. It was first a book then became a website, but you can still find the book.
2. Who is this website for ?
This website was first created for the colleagues and also all the linguistic researcher in the world. Now, everybody can use this website, everybody who have an interest in languages, by culture across the world, a curiosity with the language’s development or anybody who have want to know more about the languages spoken all around the world.
3. What does this website?
This website can actually do a lot of things. First, it gives you all the information about over than 7105 languages, even the one who are dying. This website provide information like: the numbers of speakers, location, statues of the languages, and also the translation of the bible in a lot of languages. Ethnologue got more than 19 000 updates since its creation because languages is always something that change. The updates always give new changes
4. Why is it related to my field of study?
This website is related to my field of study, which is languages, because it talks about all the different languages around the world and also because it gives a lot of information’s about different kind of languages, who can always help students in languages.
