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 Ethnologue is a [[https://www.ethnologue.com/|database]] with over 7000 languages, with information on: language identifcation, user population, location, language status (EGIDS level), classification, dialects, typology, language use, language development, and language resources. Since October 2019, Ethnologue has installed a strict paywall((Matacic, C. //World’s largest linguistics database is getting too expensive for some researchers.// (2020, February 10). Science. Retrieved February 25, 2020, from [[https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/02/world-s-largest-linguistics-database-getting-too-expensive-some-researchers]].)).
+==== Glottolog ====
+Glottolog is a the [[https://glottolog.org/|database]] for languages with a unique identifier, the Glottocode, to represent names of languages. On the website, the Agglomerated Endangerment Scale (AES) of a language is also given (not endangered,threatened, shifting, moribund, nearly extinct, or extinct).
 ==== International Labour Organization ====
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 ==== UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger ====
-The UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger is a free [[http://www.unesco.org/languages-atlas/index.php|online atlas]] with information on lesser used languages. The Atlas provides the name, number of speakers, degree of endangerement (vulnrable to extinct) and the country/ies where the language is spoken plus ISO codes and geographic coordinates. When possible, it also lists policies, projects and sources.
+The UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger is a free [[http://www.unesco.org/languages-atlas/index.php|online atlas]] with information on lesser used languages. The Atlas provides the name, number of speakers, degree of endangerement (vulnerable, definitely endangered, severely endangered, critically endangered, or extinct) and the state(s) where the language is spoken plus ISO codes and geographic coordinates. When possible, it also lists policies, projects and sources.
 ==== United Nations====