Context:

Glottolog (http://glottolog.org) provides a comprehensive catalogue of the world's languages, language families and dialects. It assigns a unique and stable identifier (the Glottocode) to (in principle) all languoids, i.e. all families, languages, and dialects.

Content:

This dataset contains information on 1) the geographic location of languages and dialects, 2) their familial relationships and 3) a list of scholarly sources where information on languages was found.

Acknowledgements:

This dataset was the current version of Glottolog as of July 20, 2017. If you publish work using this dataset, please use the following citation:

Hammarström, Harald & Haspelmath, Martin & Forkel, Robert. 2017.
Glottolog 3.0. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
(Available online at http://glottolog.org, Accessed on 2017-03-23.)

Inspiration:

• Can you plot the geographic location of each language family or langoid?
• Where are most extinct languages found?
• Can you find which language was documented in what decade? Which areas of the focus of more or less documentation?

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• Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures
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• World Atlas of Language Structures: Information on the linguistic structures in 2,679 languages