Ethnologue data now limited until you pay

Michael Everson everson at evertype.com
Mon Jan 4 19:58:45 CET 2016


On 4 Jan 2016, at 18:43, Doug Ewell <doug at ewellic.org> wrote:

> For the New Year, SIL has imposed a new restriction on Ethnologue data accessed via the web, using the well-known URL (example shown for Konkani):
> 
> http://www.ethnologue.com/language/knn
> 
> You now get only a handful of "free views" (I believe the counter starts at 6) before you have to purchase either a monthly or annual subscription.
> 
> Here's to capitalism. Fortunately the ISO 639-3 pages aren't similarly restricted yet.

Yes, I noticed that. Thus endeth the usefulness of the resource. 

Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/



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