Glottolog

Glottolog is an open-access online bibliographic database of the world's languages. In addition to listing linguistic materials (grammars, articles, dictionaries) describing individual languages, the database also contains the most up-to-date language affiliations based on the work of expert linguists.

In the Vinony graph

Vinony's link graph records 10,599 inbound references to Glottolog, and connects out to attested language, Talodi–Heiban and Oceania.

Vinony files it under 2011 establishments in Germany, Bibliographic databases and indexes and Cross-Linguistic Linked Data.

Vinony links it to 45 Wikipedia language editions.

Key facts

Bibliographic database.title: Glottolog
Bibliographic database.image: Glottolog-logo.svg
Bibliographic database.producer: Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology
Bibliographic database.country: Germany
Bibliographic database.languages: English
Bibliographic database.cost: Free
Bibliographic database.disciplines: Linguistics

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Source code

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Link to the source-code README · 425 chars · not written by Vinony

Wikidata facts

Official website: glottolog.org

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source code repository URL: github.com/clld/glottolog3
software version identifier: 4.5

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Encyclopedic overview

5 sections

Contents

Overview
Language families
Notes
References
External links

Glottolog was first developed and maintained at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, and between 2015 and 2020 at the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology in Jena, Germany. Its main curators include Harald Hammarström and Martin Haspelmath.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Glottolog” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.