ra messages put on our editorial staff. (We are not a bounce-
back list, but a moderated one. So each message is organized into an
issue with like messages by our student editors before it is posted.)
Our experience has been that almost everyone chooses to post in
English. But we do link to a translation facility that will present our
pages in any of five languages; so a subscriber need not read LINGUIST
in English unless s/he wishes to. We also try to have at least one
student editor who is genuinely multilingual, so that readers can
correspond with us in languages other than English."

She added in July 1999: "We are beginning to collect some primary data.
For example, we have searchable databases of dissertation abstracts
relevant to linguistics, of information on graduate and undergraduate
linguistics programs, and of professional information about individual
linguists. The dissertation abstracts collection is, to my knowledge,
the only freely available electronic compilation in existence."

MINORITY LANGUAGES ON THE WEB

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Caoimhin O Donnaile has taught computing -- through the Gaelic language
-- at the Institute Sabhal Mor Ostaig, on the Island of Skye, in
Scotland. He has also maintained the bilingual (English, Gaelic)
college website, which is the main site worldwide with information on
Scottish Gaelic. He wrote in May 2001: "Students do everything by
computer, use Gaelic spell-checking, a Gaelic online terminology
database. There are more hits on our website. There is more use of
sound. Gaelic radio (both Scottish and Irish) is now available
continuously worldwide via the internet. A major project has been the
translation of the Opera web browser into Gaelic -- the first software
of this size available in Gaelic."

= The Ethnologue

Published by SIL International (SIL was initially known as the Summer
Institute of Linguistics), "The Ethnologue: Languages of the World" is
an encyclopedic reference work cataloging all of the world's 6,909
known living languages. The 16th edition was published in 2009, in
print and on the web. The Ethnologue has been an active research
project for more than fifty years. Thousands of linguists have
contributed to the Ethnologue worldwide. A new edition is published
approximately every four years.

The Ethnologue was founded in 1951 by Richard Pittman, who was
motivated by the desire to share information on language development
needs around the world with h