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Glottolog

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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.

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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Encyclopedic overview

5 sections
Contents
  • Overview
  • Language families
  • Notes
  • References
  • External links

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.

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.