Ethnolinguistic
Language families of the world
A linguistic map of related languages, an approximation of ethnolinguistic geography, not a census of peoples.
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Living languages count
Ethnologue’s public insight on how many living languages are counted, a magnitude card next to the Glottolog family map, not a second family atlas.
Ethnologue (SIL International) publishes a public insight on the number of living languages it lists. That tally moves as ISO 639-3 changes and as languages are reclassified living or extinct. This card is about the size of that inventory, not a second map of language families. Glottolog remains the family-classification map on this shelf.
Source
Ethnologue: How many languages (SIL International)
Vintage: 2026
https://www.ethnologue.com/insights/how-many-languages/
License
Ethnologue’s insight page is their text. The preview is Wikimedia’s Ethnologue 18 linguistic-diversity-index map (cmglee, CC BY-SA 3.0): a country choropleth of diversity, not Glottolog families and not current-edition Ethnologue artwork.
How to read it
The live number lives on Ethnologue’s insight page. We do not print a headline count here because the page is the source of record and the number changes. The preview is an older Ethnologue linguistic-diversity-index choropleth, darker where many languages share a country, not a family-tree atlas and not a census of peoples.
Caveats
“A language” is a scholarly and political decision. Colonial borders cut across speech communities. Do not treat a shade as ethnicity, loyalty, or territory. Do not clone this card as a second Glottolog.
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Endangered languages (UNESCO Atlas)
Languages UNESCO listed as vulnerable to extinct, an endangerment atlas, not a census of peoples and not a second family-tree map.
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World Atlas of Language Structures
Structural features of languages: sound systems, word order, grammar, mapped from reference grammars. Typology, not ethnicity and not a family tree.
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Language areas (Asher & Moseley)
Open polygons for language areas digitized from Asher & Moseley’s atlas and linked to Glottocodes, areas, not single Glottolog points, and still not a census of peoples.
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Endangered Languages Project catalogue
A living catalogue and map of endangered and Indigenous languages with community resources, another endangerment lens beside UNESCO’s 2010 Atlas, not a second Glottolog.
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