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Ethnologue Database Help Guide (S2S)

About OLAC

One of the resources available through the Ethnologue is OLAC, the Open Languages Archive Community. This database contains resources on languages from all over the world. Use the resources on this page to learn how to navigate to and around OLAC.

What is OLAC?

The Open Language Archives Community is an international virtual library of language resources.

How large is the OLAC database?

The OLAC archives contain over 300,000 records at this time. These records include resources in about half the world's living languages