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Two comments. First, don't bother looking for the new edition of Ruhlen's
_Guide_. There is a new version, published by the Stanford University
Press, but it is supposed to comprise three volumes, and the only one
published so far deals only with classification. The "data" volume has
yet to appear.

Second, contrary to Kenneth Miner's memory, Maddieson's inventories
are, for the most part, second hand like everybody elses and so raise the
same problems of interpretation, inconsistent phonemicization, etc.
It has its uses, but like any other such book, I would treat it primarily
as a source of pointers to the primary literature and check out anything
crucial myself. Note also that that it attempts to present a statistically
useful sample, not an exhaustive list of languages, so relatively rare
sounds and inventories may well be missing.

Bill Poser