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Language distribution

1. About.com: Geography
2. Australian Languages
3. Comunn na Gaidhlig
4. Ethnologue Language Database
5. Ethnologue Language Database: United Kingdom
6. European Bureau for Lesser Used Languages
7. Languages of Canada
8. Languages of Mexico
9. Living Languages of the Americas
10. Mercator Education

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About.com: Geography

Tools for geographers of the United States including Vicinity MapBlast which produces US street maps, lists of languages spoken around the world, and summary data for US counties. Also includes a geography related game.
     Author: About.com
     Subjects: geography links, language distribution, united states of america
     DeweyClass: 910
     Resource type: index

Australian Languages

Provides links to material concerning the languages of Australia, including linguists and dictionaries.
     Author: Nash, David
     Subjects: australia, language distribution
     DeweyClass: 499.15
     Resource type: index

Comunn na Gaidhlig

Promotion of the Scottish Gaelic language at local, regional, and national levels. Information includes details of projects, such as Iurosgoil99, which is concerned with minority languages of the European Union, news articles, annual reports, and statistical data pertaining to education from nursery to secondary schools, arranged by school and region. Resources are available in Gaelic and English.
     Author: Comunn na Gaidhlig
     Subjects: gaelic language, language distribution
     DeweyClass: 491.63
     Resource type: documents

Ethnologue Language Database

The Ethnologue is a catalogue of more than 6,700 languages spoken in 228 countries. The Ethnologue Name Index lists over 39,000 language names, dialect names, and alternate names. The Ethnologue Language Family Index organizes languages according to language families. The Ethnologue tries to bring together the best information available on the languages of the world. Entries represent separate languages or probable languages (highly divergent 'dialects').
     Author: Grimes, Barbara F.
     Subjects: ethnography, language distribution, linguistics
     DeweyClass: 400
     Resource type: document collection, reference documents

Ethnologue Language Database: United Kingdom

A catalogue of all the languages and dialects spoken in the United Kingdom, with details of the numbers of speakers of each language. Also some demographic data such as rates of literacy, blindness and deafness.
     Author: Summer Institute of Linguistics
     Subjects: language distribution, literacy, united kingdom
     DeweyClass: 409.41
     Resource type: document

European Bureau for Lesser Used Languages

Promotion and protection of the linguistic rights of regional, minority, and non territorial languages within the European Union member states. Information includes EBLUL's policy statements, current projects, and registered organisations. Additional information is provided by a searchable database of all the languages represented, with numbers of current speakers, and representation within public services, the media, and education. Available in English and French.
     Author: European Bureau for Lesser Used Languages
     Subjects: language distribution
     DeweyClass: 409.4
     Resource type: documents

Languages of Canada

Details of languages spoken in Canada and a list of related publications.
     Author: Summer Institute of Linguistics
     Subjects: canadian geography, language distribution
     DeweyClass: 497.3
     Resource type: reference data

Languages of Mexico

Index of languages spoken in Mexico including estimates of numbers speaking each language and the areas where they are spoken.
     Author: Summer Institute of Linguistics
     Subjects: language distribution, mexico
     DeweyClass: 497
     Resource type: reference data

Living Languages of the Americas

Tables detailing the languages spoken in the countries of North, Central and South America and the Caribbean. Estimates of population currently speaking each language are included.
     Author: Summer Institute of Linguistics
     Subjects: american indians, caribbean, central america, language distribution, south america
     DeweyClass: 497
     Resource type: reference documents

Mercator Education

Programme set up, with the help of the European Commission, to store and collect documentation and information and to carry out research on minority or regional languages. Includes details of research projects, publications and databases and links to resources for minority languages including Basque, Breton and Corsican.
     Author: Mercator Education, Fryske Akademy
     Subjects: language distribution
     DeweyClass: 407
     Resource type: documents, reference data