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These electronic versions of Ethnologue: Languages of the World, and the SIL Bibliography are intended for scholarly research and educational use. You may make a copy of portions of these documents for research or educational purposes free of charge and without further permission. Republication or commercial use of the Ethnologue (and its indexes) and commercial use of bibliography citations is expressly prohibited without the written consent of SIL International. Noncommercial republication of bibliography citations is permitted according to the restrictions outlined in the bibliography overview. You may make links to these documents (with proper attribution), but you may not mirror (i.e., place copies of) these documents, in part or whole, on your site without permission of SIL International.

Terms of Use for SIL Three-letter Language Codes and their Mapping to ISO 639

In the interest of fostering the uniform identification of all the world's languages in information systems, SIL International releases for public use the system of three-letter codes used in the Ethnologue as well as their mapping to the codes of the ISO 639 standard. You are welcome to download the complete code set or the mappings as provided and incorporate the supplied tables into your own database application. The 130 codes in the range QVA to QZZ are reserved for local use, and you may assign meanings that are specific to your application to codes in this range. You are also authorized to make that application available to the public, provided that you:

SIL International maintains the SIL language code set and the ISO 639 mappings, and intends this site to be the centralized distribution source of both in order to ensure uniformity. You are not authorized to redistribute the downloadable code or mapping tables, whether in the exact form they were obtained from this site or in a modified form you have developed, without the written consent of SIL International.

Terms of Use for Maps

These maps may be used in reports, presentations, displays, and other uses as long as they are not altered. They have "watermarks" on them to remind users that these are for private use and not for distribution to others, either as printouts or as computer files, except as noted below.

JPEG Maps

The complete set of these maps is included in a folder on the Ethnologue CD-ROM, viewable with an internet browser or a graphics program.

Permission

You MAY print or post copies of the JPEG versions of these maps if (1) the copyright and "watermark" are not removed, (2) the graphic is not modified, and (3) no more than three SIL JPEGs are used in any one publication or internet site. Any other use requires prior written permission from SIL International.

These maps may not be displayed on an internet site containing adult or other content objectionable to SIL International.

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