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Terms of Use for Archive Documents

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• Materials in the Rosetta Project Digital Language Archive are intended for scholarship, research, and educational use only.
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• Any work, published or unpublished, based on these recordings must acknowledge The Rosetta Project Digital Language Archive and the original depositor and/or contributing organization (see item details for information about attribution).

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Below are the specific permissions and use policies of various organizations and individuals who have documents in the Archive.

Summer Institute of Linguistics International Fair Use Policy (from www.sil.org)

This electronic version of the Ethnologue, the Ethnologue Language Name Index, and the Ethnologue Language Family Index is intended for scholarly research and educational use. You may make copies 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) is expressly prohibited without the written consent of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, Inc. 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 the Summer Institute of Linguistics, Inc.