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Catalogue of languages of the world
Description
A dataset containes the original catalogue of languages of the world involving genealogical affiliation, macro-area, country, iso code, and coordinates.
Usage
glottolog
Format
A data frame with 26879 rows and 10 variables:
- glottocode
languoid code from Glottolog 5.0
- language
name of the language
- iso
code based on ISO 639–3 https://iso639-3.sil.org/
- level
languoid type: dialect or language (possible values are dialect, language, family, bookkeeping, pseudo family, sign language, unclassifiable, pidgin, unattested, artificial language, speech register, mixed language)
- area
have six values Africa, Australia, Eurasia, North America, Papunesia, South America
- latitude
latitude
- longitude
longitude
- countries
list of countries, where the language is spoken
- affiliation
genealogical affiliation
- subclassification
subclassification in a Newick format
Details
Hammarstrom, Harald and Forkel, Robert and Haspelmath, Martin and Bank, Sebastian. 2023. Glottolog 5.0. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10804357 (Available online at http://glottolog.org, Accessed on 2024-03-12.)