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==Editions== Starting with the 17th edition, ''Ethnologue'' has been published every year,<ref name="welcome18">{{cite web|first=Paul|last=Lewis| url=http://www.ethnologue.com/ethnoblog/m-paul-lewis/welcome-18th-edition#.VT78MdKqpBc |title=Welcome to the 18th edition! |publisher=Ethnologue |date=February 21, 2015 |access-date=2015-04-28}}</ref> on [[February 21]], which is [[International Mother Language Day]].<ref name="welcome23"/> {|class=wikitable |- !Edition!!Date!!Editor!!Notes |- |1<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.glottolog.org/resource/reference/id/60071.xhtml |title=[SIL01] 1951 |publisher=[[Glottolog]] |access-date=2014-07-13}}</ref> || 1951 || Richard S. Pittman || 10 mimeographed pages; 40 languages<ref name="NYT">{{Cite news|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/19/science/19lang.html |url-access=subscription |title=How Linguists and Missionaries Share a Bible of 6,912 Languages|first=Michael|last=Erard|date=July 19, 2005 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140907024300/https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/19/science/19lang.html |archive-date= Sep 7, 2014 }}</ref> |- |2<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.glottolog.org/resource/reference/id/54356.xhtml |title=[SIL02] 1951 |publisher=[[Glottolog]] |access-date=2014-07-13}}</ref> || 1951 || Pittman || |- |3<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.glottolog.org/resource/reference/id/22769.xhtml |title=[SIL03] 1952 |publisher=[[Glottolog]] |access-date=2014-07-13}}</ref> || 1952 || Pittman || |- |4<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.glottolog.org/resource/reference/id/21528.xhtml |title=[SIL04] 1953 |publisher=[[Glottolog]] |access-date=2014-07-13}}</ref> || 1953 || Pittman || first to include maps<ref name="ESRI">{{cite web|url=http://www.esri.com/news/arcnews/spring06articles/pinpointing.html |title=Pinpointing the Languages of the World with GIS |publisher=[[Esri]] |date=Spring 2006 |access-date=2014-07-13}}</ref> |- |5<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.glottolog.org/resource/reference/id/17736.xhtml |title=[SIL05] 1958 |publisher=[[Glottolog]] |access-date=2014-07-13}}</ref> || 1958 || Pittman || first edition in book format |- |6<ref>{{cite book|url=http://www.glottolog.org/resource/reference/id/161714.xhtml |title=[SIL06] 1965 |year=1965 |publisher=[[Glottolog]] |access-date=2014-07-13}}</ref> || 1965 || Pittman || |- |7<ref>{{cite book|url=http://www.glottolog.org/resource/reference/id/59425.xhtml |title=Glottolog 2.3 |year=1969 |publisher=Glottolog.org |access-date=2014-07-13}}</ref> || 1969 || Pittman || 4,493 languages |- |8<ref>{{cite book|url=http://www.glottolog.org/resource/reference/id/76438.xhtml |title=Glottolog 2.3 |year=1974 |publisher=Glottolog.org |access-date=2014-07-13}}</ref> || 1974 || Barbara Grimes ||<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iyVgAAAAMAAJ |title=Ethnologue |editor1=Barbara F. Grimes |editor2=Richard Saunders Pittman |editor3=Joseph Evans Grimes |publisher=Wycliffe Bible Translators |date=1974 |access-date=2014-07-13}}</ref> |- |9<ref>{{cite book|url=http://www.glottolog.org/resource/reference/id/53624.xhtml |title=Glottolog 2.3 |year=1978 |publisher=Glottolog.org |access-date=2014-07-13}}</ref> || 1978 || Grimes || |- |10<ref>{{cite book|url=http://www.glottolog.org/resource/reference/id/81352.xhtml |title=Glottolog 2.3 |year=1984 |publisher=Glottolog.org |access-date=2014-07-13}}</ref> || 1984 || Grimes || SIL codes first included |- |11<ref>{{cite book|url=http://www.glottolog.org/resource/reference/id/92772.xhtml |title=Glottolog 2.3 |year=1988 |publisher=Glottolog.org |access-date=2014-07-13}}</ref> || 1988 || Grimes || [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Languages/Primary language names in Ethnologue 11|6,253 languages]]<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UWdiAAAAMAAJ |title=Ethnologue volume 11 |publisher=SIL |date=April 28, 2008 |isbn=9780883128251 |access-date=2014-07-13}}</ref> |- |12<ref>{{cite book|url=http://www.glottolog.org/resource/reference/id/79725.xhtml |title=Glottolog 2.3 |year=1992 |publisher=Glottolog.org |access-date=2014-07-13}}</ref> || 1992 || Grimes || [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Languages/Primary language names in Ethnologue 12|6,662 languages]] |- |13<ref>{{cite book|url=http://www.glottolog.org/resource/reference/id/67429.xhtml |title=Glottolog 2.3 |year=1996 |publisher=Glottolog.org |access-date=2014-07-13}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ethnologue.com/13/|title=Ethnologue, 13th edition, 1996|work=www.ethnologue.com|access-date=1 January 2018}}</ref> || 1996 || Grimes || [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Languages/Primary language names in Ethnologue 13|6,883 languages]] |- |14<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ethnologue.com/14/ |title=Ethnologue Fourteenth Edition, Web Version |publisher=ethnologue.com |access-date=2014-07-13}}</ref> || 2000 || Grimes || [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Languages/Primary language names in Ethnologue 14 and 15|6,809 languages]] |- |15<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ethnologue.com/15/ |title=Ethnologue 15, Web Version |publisher=ethnologue.com |access-date=2014-07-13}}</ref> || 2005 || Raymond G. Gordon Jr.{{sfn|Everaert|Musgrave|Dimitriadis|2009|p=61}} || [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Languages/Primary language names in Ethnologue 14 and 15|6,912 languages]]; draft ISO standard; first edition to provide color maps<ref name="ESRI"/> |- |16<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ethnologue.com/16/web |title=Ethnologue 16, Web Version |publisher=ethnologue.com |access-date=2014-07-13}}</ref> || 2009 || M. Paul Lewis || [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Languages/Primary language names in Ethnologue 16 by ISO code|6,909 languages]] |- |17 || 2013, updated 2014<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.ethnologue.com/ethnoblog/mpl/check-out-new-ethnologue |title=Check out the new Ethnologue |publisher=Ethnologue |date=April 30, 2014 |access-date=2014-07-13 }}</ref> || M. Paul Lewis, Gary F. Simons and Charles D. Fennig ||[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Languages/Primary language names in Ethnologue 17 by ISO code|7,106 living languages]] |- |18 || 2015 || Lewis, Simons & Fennig ||[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Languages/Primary language names in Ethnologue 18|7,102 living languages; 7,472 total]] |- |19 || 2016 || Lewis, Simons & Fennig || 7,097 living languages |- |20 || 2017 || Simons & Fennig || 7,099 living languages |- |21<ref>{{cite web |url = https://www.ethnologue.com |title = Ethnologue 21, Web Version |website = ethnologue.com |access-date=2018-02-22 }}</ref> || 2018 || Simons & Fennig || 7,097 living languages |- |22<ref>{{cite web |url = https://www.ethnologue.com |title = Ethnologue 22, Web Version |website = ethnologue.com |access-date=2019-02-22 }}</ref> || 2019 || Eberhard, David M., Simons & Fennig || 7,111 living languages |- |23<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ethnologue.com/|title=Ethnologue 23, Web Version|website=ethnologue.com|language=en|access-date=2020-02-23}}</ref> |2020 |Eberhard, Simons & Fennig |7,117 living languages |- |24<ref name="welcome24"/> |2021 |Eberhard, Simons & Fennig |7,139 living languages |- |25<ref name="welcome25">{{Cite web |date=2022-02-21 |title=Welcome to the 25th edition |url=https://www.ethnologue.com/ethnoblog/welcome-25th-edition/ |access-date=2023-02-25 |website=Ethnologue |language=en}}</ref> |2022 |Eberhard, Simons & Fennig |7,151 living languages |- |26<ref name="welcome26">{{Cite web |date=2023-02-21 |title=Welcome to the 26th edition |url=https://www.ethnologue.com/ethnoblog/welcome-26th-edition/ |access-date=2023-02-25 |website=Ethnologue |language=en}}</ref> |2023 |Eberhard, Simons & Fennig |7,168 living languages |- |27<ref name="welcome27">{{Cite web |date=2024-02-21 |title=Welcome to the 27th edition |url=https://www.ethnologue.com/ethnoblog/welcome-27th-edition/ |access-date=2024-02-20 |website=Ethnologue |language=en}}</ref> |2024 |Eberhard, Simons & Fennig |7,164 living languages |- |28<ref name="welcome28">{{Cite web |date=2025-02-21 |title=Welcome to the 28th edition |url=https://www.ethnologue.com/ethnoblog/welcome-28th-edition/ |access-date=2025-02-21 |website=Ethnologue |language=en}}</ref> |2025 |Eberhard, Simons & Fennig |7,159 living languages |}
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