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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Linguasphere Observatory
		In July 2001, the BSI (British Standards Institution) requested the Linguasphere Observatory to make a firm proposal for the establishment of a standardised alphanumeric coding system covering all the world's languages, based on existing and future codes of ISO 639 and correlated with the referential framework and relationship scale of the Linguasphere Register.
		Linguasphere Mapbase of the World's Languages and Speech Communities and is currently being extended into southern Europe and western Asia, in collaboration with the Languages of the World unit of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Akademia Nauk).
		A more detailed proposal will be prepared by the Linguasphere Observatory for the beginning of 2002, including the orderly extension of identification codes to all spoken and written languages, and the examination of procedures for combining language codes with codes for countries and for scripts.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Linguasphere-Observatory (511 words)

	register (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Compiled over several decades by David Dalby (Linguasphere Observatory, London School of Oriental and African Studies and University of Wales, Cardiff), the Register classifies all known languages and dialects on the basis of their closest linguistic relationships, and includes a theoretical and practical discussion and presentation of the linguasphere.
		The purpose of the Linguasphere Observatory is to serve as a public observation platform in cyberspace, where comprehensive data on the workings of the linguasphere may be gathered, and presented in a readily accessible form to a public audience.
		One of the objectives of the framework edition of the Linguasphere Register is to establish a basic pattern for the organisation and presentation of summarised data on each component language and dialect of the linguasphere.
	xml.coverpages.org /linguasphereDescriptionText200108.html (1958 words)

	Linguasphere language code - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Linguasphere language code is a reference system for world languages used by the Linguasphere Observatory and published in its Linguasphere Register.
		According to statistical analysis of linguistic similarity the various lects that comprise the outer language are coded using a second, and often a third letter.
		Appreciation of the Linguasphere language code is often easier with concrete examples.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Linguasphere_language_code (462 words)

	Welcome to Linguasphere - The website of the worlds languages and speech communities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Linguasphere ICT is a non-profit making organisation involved in the classification and coding of the language and speech communities of the world for the standardisation, localisation and globalisation industries.
		Linguasphere ICT is currently developing a database of languages, dialects and their written and spoken components, based on the original Linguasphere Register (Dalby 2000); this will be made available on the web for verifying and updating towards the end of 2004.
		Linguasphere ICT may be able to apply for grant funding in Wales matchfunded by volunteer time.
	www.linguasphere.com (474 words)

	Linguasphere Observatory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It was created in France in 1983 and is currently based in Wales.
		In 1999, the Linguasphere published the Linguasphere Register of the World's Languages and Speech Communities, the second edition of which is due out in 2006.
		Since then, the Linguasphere's director, David Dalby, has been actively involved in a linguistic concatenation project with the British Standards Institute (BSI).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Linguasphere_Observatory (193 words)

	Classification, Identification and
		At the same time, it is necessary that the identifiable written and spoken languages of human communities be clearly and unambiguously catalogued and identified, from the international use of English or French to the unique speech of an isolated village in central Africa.
		The agency responsible for compiling and maintaining the Register is the Linguasphere Observatory (www.linguasphere.org), a transnational research network devoted to the study and maintenance of multilingualism.
		Linguasphere Register of the World's Languages and Speech Communities was first published at the turn of the millennium (1999/2000).
	www.oasis-open.org /cover/ISO-WG1-N077.html (4503 words)

	Re: the Ethnologue
		I think the Linguasphere is a valueable publication, and the only alternative I'm aware of that is a contender in place of the Ethnologue.
		There is no certainty that one category in one place within the Linguasphere catalog that is at a given level represents exactly the same kind of object as other categories at the same level elsewhere in the catalog.
		(One further comment about Linguasphere: I haven't read all of the introductory material, but there is an indication that the choice was made to not base the hierarchy on inferred genetic relationships since this was not considered relevant for understanding the current socio-linguistic settings of language communities.
	www.mail-archive.com /unicode@unicode.org/msg01847.html (771 words)

	[YES] The Linguasphere proposal is suited to RFC 3066(oritssuccessors) and its consuming protocols
		John Cowan sub-script >The worst problem I see with the Linguasphere identifiers is the >extreme difficulty of relating the more general to the less general, >as must be done if requests are to be appropriately satisfied.
		Each linguistic item within the Linguasphere is allocated a category number - usually fixed can be flexible - as it would have been with the Serbia-Croatian situation (which I am sure David Dalby will explain if required) which denotes where within the database it fits: e.g.
		Clay Compton -----Original Message----- From: ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no [mailto:ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no]On Behalf Of Misha Wolf Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 12:24 PM To: ietf-languages at iana.org Subject: [YES/NO] The Linguasphere proposal is suited to RFC 3066 (or its successors) and its consuming protocols Ooops.
	www.alvestrand.no /pipermail/ietf-languages/2004-June/002047.html (1681 words)

	Welcome to Linguasphere - The website of the worlds languages and speech communities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Linguasphere Observatory (Observatoire Linguistique in French and Wylfa Ieithoedd in Welsh) is a transnational research institute devoted to the worldwide study and promotion of multilingualism.
		From this vantage-point, the collective and individual development of the world's languages, and the linguistic impact of the communications revolution, are being carefully observed and described, with increasing emphasis on the welfare and education of each of the world's speech communities, regardless of their demographic size.
		The Linguasphere Observatory, and this website, have been created to serve as a viewing-platform from which the linguasphere may be observed in the round, as a planetary transnational environment, and from which the situation of each speech-community, however small, may be seen in its local and global context.
	www.linguasphere.com /observatory.asp (383 words)

	[Ltru] [slightly OT] Linguasphere (was Great Script Debate Part II: Formats...)
		First, you need to ignore several of Linguasphere's artificially-constructed categories which are necessitated by fitting everything into its model, which requires every language to be in some net in some chain in some set in some zone in the given sector (phylum).
		The result of this is that Linguasphere has several level-2 nodes not found in the current draft of 639-5, and vice versa.
		This results from Linguasphere's unique analysis, which appears to be driven largely by the insistence of fitting everything into its five-layer model for upper levels of hierarchy and of having ten top layers each with ten level-2 groupings.
	www1.ietf.org /mail-archive/web/ltru/current/msg01047.html (705 words)

	Foundation For Endangered Languages. Home
		The British linguist, David Dalby, disagrees with that analysis and argues that linguistic diversity is greater than most linguists imagine (nearer ten thousand languages in the world rather than six), and that the rate of language loss is slower than has been assumed.
		A new Web site devoted to David Dalby's Linguasphere Observatory was launched recently and includes some of the material that will appear in a comprehensive Register of the World's Languages and Speech Communities.
		David Dalby describes the Linguasphere Observatory as 'an independent research network devoted to the study and promotion of multilingualism and the exploration of our global linguistic environment'.
	www.ogmios.org /136.htm (638 words)

	Lagom Solutions Ltd.
		By 1999/2000, the Observatory had completed and published the Linguasphere Register of the World's Languages and Speech Communities, the first systematic classification and coding of relationships among over 21,000 languages and dialects, both spoken and written.
		Linguasphere Observatory Ltd is registered in England and Wales as a non-profit distributing company with the objective of funding the scientific research.
		This includes a formal proposal that the alpha4 identifiers be used as an international standard of linguistic reference, from the layer of intercontinental language families to that of individual speech communities in the world's mega-cities.
	www.lagomsolutions.com /en/en_projects.php (237 words)

	The Linguasphere Observatory
		As we enter a new millennium, the exploration of our global linguistic environment and the achievement of a new planetary view of human languages - of humanity itself - need to be the concern of all who are interested in our common destiny.
		The Linguasphere Observatory is a viewing-platform in cyberspace from which our linguasphere may be observed as a transnational system around the globe and from which the situation of each linguistic community, however small, may be seen in its local and global context.
		The Linguasphere Register of the World’s Languages and Speech-Communities is the first comprehensive and transnational classification of the languages and dialects of the world and is available NOW through this website.
	www.aulaintercultural.org /print.php3?id_article=749 (207 words)

	Welcome to Linguasphere - The website of the worlds languages and speech communities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		This is the linguasphere, the greatest creation of humankind, to which every communicating child and adult has contributed since the beginnings of speech more than 50,000 years ago.
		In the era of global electronic communication, we may now observe and admire the vast multilingual wealth of the linguasphere for the first time.
		It is ready to enter the linguasphere wherever it finds itself, and to learn whatever
	www.linguasphere.com /intro.asp (99 words)

	David Dalby: ZoomInfo Business People Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		THE LINGUASPHERE PROGRAMME (Times Higher Educational Supplement, May 2000) The following article on the Linguasphere Register by its author David Dalby was published on 26th May 2000 in the Times Higher Educational Supplement in London.
		EXPOLANGUES 2000 The Linguasphere Observatory announced the global launch of the first edition of the Linguasphere Register of the World's Languages and Speech Communities 1999/2000 at the EXPOLANGUES 2000 exhibition in Paris on 25th February.
		While the Linguasphere Observatory is registered in France, its research base is in Wales.
	www.zoominfo.com /directory/Dalby_David_41554257.htm (624 words)

	News
		The quote above (in Welsh in the title) is the Linguasphere Observatory's motto.
		We are told that "The Linguasphere Observatory is seeking help and sponsorship to prepare and provide versions of their website in other languages," and that "In the meantime, one can always visit the Observatoire Linguistique (the French version of the site) or go to Google Translation for limited online translation" into other languages.
		Just like the Linguasphere Observatory, above, they too are looking for sponsors and volunteers and they do ask for it.
	www.newciv.org /news2/index.htm/_v45/__show_article/_a000408-000065.htm (1071 words)

	Welcome to Linguasphere - The website of the worlds languages and speech communities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The fluidity of the linguasphere is maintained by the movement of bilingual speakers among thousands of pairs of languages in contact.
		From around 50,000 years ago, a web of multilingual contacts among tiny human communities extended gradually across the globe, from Africa through Eurasia to Oceania and the Americas.
		Little more than 500 years ago, the power of writing was itself vastly multiplied by the printing-press, while the crossing of the Atlantic joined the last great physical gap in the global web of speech-communities.
	www.linguasphere.com /concept.asp (187 words)

	ISO 639-3/Linguasphere language subtags
		The Linguasphere Observatory welcomes her announcement, which enables the Observatory to make an advanced statement to the IETF-languages forum about present research and development.
		It has become increasingly clear that codes in the Latin script are inappropriate for the tagging of languages and scripts across a multilingual internet (apart from additional confusion with the 2-letter national codes of ISO 3166).
		The Linguasphere Observatory has accordingly been perfecting an alternative system for the numeric coding of the world’s languages, and of their written and spoken representations on the internet.
	www.alvestrand.no /pipermail/ietf-languages/2006-March/004089.html (370 words)

	Phaltan all set to go global
		The town will play host to the first ground-station of the Linguasphere Observatory, an international organisation serving as a global research network devoted to the study and promotion of languages.
		The first ground-station of Linguasphere Observatory should take the form of a sphere, rising from the southern face of a hill in a multilingual area of the world.
		The Linguasphere Observatory set up in 1983 has its research base at Hebron in Wales, UK, and recently completed the Linguasphere Register.
	www.expressindia.com /ie/daily/19981015/28851734.html (373 words)

	gmane.ietf.ltru
		The Linguasphere database upon which 639-6 is based is still not freely available to the public for evaluation and examination, and seems unlikely ever to be, unlike the Ethnologue database upon which ISO 639-3 is based.
		Moreover, with ISO 639-3 already claiming to provide coverage for "all known human languages," numbering a bit over 7,600, and with Linguasphere listing "over 20,000 languages and constituent dialects," one is left to wonder just what the 13,400 new identifiers will contribute from the standpoint of identifying and requesting linguistic content.
		The Linguasphere database upon which 639-6 is based is still > not freely available to the public for evaluation and examination, and > seems unlikely ever to be, unlike the Ethnologue database upon which ISO > 639-3 is based.
	blog.gmane.org /gmane.ietf.ltru/day=20050828 (1561 words)

	Cover Pages: Language Identifiers in the Markup Context
		Linguasphere is comparable in some respects to SIL's Ethnologue project; both provide a system of language identifiers with codes for almost all the living languages of the world." [adapted from a book review by Philip Baker]
		The Linguasphere is composed of two interlocking and evolving strata of human conventions: (1) the total lexical repertoire of humankind, made up of the overlapping and shifting repertoires of all spoken and recorded languages, (2) the global distribution of the overlapping and shifting phonological and grammatical patterns which serve to structure those repertoires.
		The Linguasphere Press has a parallel website www.linguasphere.net through which both the Linguasphere Register and the licensed version of Linguasphere Online may now be obtained.
	www.oasis-open.org /cover/languageIdentifiers.html (14038 words)

	The Linguasphere Observatory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Linguasphere Observatory - !http://www.linguasphere.org/ - 4ppl Dir
		The Linguasphere Observatory is a research network devoted to the study of multilingualism.
		Includes extracts from the linguasphere register - the first transnational classification of the world's speech communities.
	www.linguasphere.org / - 4ppl Dir - !http://www.4ppl.com/directory/relat/related1565_9968.html (50 words)

	Defenders of diversity
		The Terralingua website, which has a wealth of information and links to other organizations with the same goals, is open to all kinds of contributions, from proverbs and poems in any language to money donations to the Endangered Language Fund, whose watchword is “When a language is gone, it is gone forever”.
		Linguasphere Observatory is an independent, non-profit transnational research body which published in February 2000 the first edition of the Register of the World’s Languages and Speech Communities.
		The first-ever detailed catalogue of the world’s languages and dialects, the Register provides a global linguistic panorama at the dawn of the 21st century.
	www.unesco.org /courier/2000_04/uk/doss22.htm (999 words)

	RE: [Ltru] [slightly OT] Linguasphere (was Great Script Debate Part II:Formats...)
		Peter is quoting from the Linguasphere Register > as published in 2000.
		Debbie is quite right: I'm quoting from the first edition of the Linguasphere register, which is the only info I have to go on; though certainly not insignificant in this case, it is certainly possible that very significant changes have been made.
		Thus, I agree with her final comment: that it would be prudent to wait.
	www1.ietf.org /mail-archive/web/ltru/current/msg01050.html (287 words)

	Yale Africa Guide InterActive: Language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		This language is spoken by the Kisii of SW Kenya - famous for its soapstone figurines.
		Linguasphere - classifying the world's languages and dialects
		The Linguasphere Observatory is a linguistic research network.
	research.yale.edu /swahili/links/Language (475 words)

	langtag.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		I have just returned from a successful visit to Paris, where I had been invited to participate in the 5th meeting of EGENI, the Etats généraux européens du nommage et de l’adressage sur internet (European global event on domain names and address systems on the internet).
		Among other participants, it was valuable to re-establish contact with UNESCO, represented at the meeting by Mauro Rosi, and to discuss current developments with my long-standing friend Marcel Diki-Kidiri.
		Marcel was preparing to depart to attend the REDILI workshop on the African Web Survey, being held from today in Bamako, Mali (and for which I have prepared a short statement on the linguasphere and the internet, published also on this weblog).
	www.langtag.com (249 words)

	LINGUIST List 10.1895: Cognitive Modeling, Linguasphere Register (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		webmaster, The Linguasphere Register of the World's Languages and Speech Communities
		Message 2: The Linguasphere Register of the World's Languages and Speech Communities
		The Linguasphere Observatory is a research network devoted to the classification of the world's languages and dialects, the study and promotion of multilingualism and the exploration of our global linguistic environment.
	www.ling.ed.ac.uk /linguist/issues/10/10-1895.html (715 words)

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