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Find out more about literacy projects. Statistics and stories come together through these snapshots of local literacy-related initiatives around the world.


   

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Ethnologue: Languages of the World—2009 edition

The most comprehensive reference volume of its kind, the Ethnologue catalogs the world's 6,909 known living languages. With color maps, statistical summary tables and a bibliography, it is available both in hardcover and online.