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Welcome to Glottolog 5.3
Comprehensive reference information for the world's languages, especially the
lesser known languages.
Information about the different languages,
dialects, and families of the world ('languoids') is available in the
Languages
and
Families
sections. The
References
section contains bibliographical information.
You can query the bibliographical database by filtering the table view or using
a complex query
involving genealogical affiliation, document type, and macro-area.
Catalogue of languages and families
Glottolog
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. Any variety that a linguist works on should
eventually get its own entry. The languoids are organized via a genealogical classification
(the Glottolog tree) that is based on available historical-comparative research
(see also the
Languoids information
section).
Bibliography
The
References
section ('langdoc') provides a comprehensive collection of bibliographical data for the world's lesser
known languages. It provides access to 460,382 references of descriptive works such as
grammars, dictionaries, word lists, texts etc. Search criteria include author, year, title,
country, and genealogical affiliation. References can be downloaded as txt, bib, html,
or with the
Zotero
Firefox plugin.
Glottolog will be continuously expanded and improved with the help
of their users. The input of expert linguists is crucial.
Glottolog is an initiative of the Max Planck Institute for
Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig. It should be cited as follows:
Hammarström, Harald & Forkel, Robert & Haspelmath, Martin & Bank, Sebastian. 2026.
Glottolog 5.3.
Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
(Available online at http://glottolog.org, Accessed on 2026-04-24.)
Particularly important contributors to the Langdoc database are Alain Fabre,
Jouni Maho and SIL International. For more details, see the
Credits
page.
The data published by Glottolog is curated in the public GitHub repository
glottolog/glottolog
The Glottolog web application at https://glottolog.org serves the latest
released version
of the data in this repository.
You may report errors you found in Glottolog using this repositories
issue tracker
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