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'''''Glottolog''''' is a [[bibliographic database]] of the world's lesser-known languages, developed and maintained first at the [[Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology]] in [[Leipzig]], Germany (between 2015 and 2020 at the [[Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History]] in [[Jena]], Germany). Its main curators include [[Harald Hammarström]] and [[Martin Haspelmath]].
== Overview ==
Glottolog provides a catalogue of the world's languages and language families and a bibliography on the world's less-spoken languages. It differs from the similar catalogue ''[[Ethnologue]]'' in several respects:
* It tries to accept only those languages that the editors have been able to confirm both exist and are distinct. Varieties that have not been confirmed, but are inherited from another source, are tagged as "[[Spurious languages|spurious]]" or "[[Unattested language|unattested]]".{{NoteTag|See for example the {{glottolink|book1242|bookkeeping}} section for ISO languages that ''Glottolog'' has deemed to be spurious distinctions.<br />This discrimination does not apply to dialects, many of which have been inherited from [[MultiTree]] or other sources without verification.}}
* It attempts only to classify languages into families which have been demonstrated to be valid.
* Bibliographic information is provided, especially for lesser-known languages.
* To a limited extent, alternative names are listed according to the sources which use them.
The language names used in the bibliographic entries are identified by [[ISO 639-3]] code or Glottolog's own code (Glottocode); apart from a single point-location on a map at its geographic centre, no ethnographic or demographic information is provided. External links are provided to ISO, ''Ethnologue'' and other online language databases
The latest version is 4.3, released under the [[Creative Commons license|Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License]] in October 2020.
It is part of the [[Cross-Linguistic Linked Data]] project hosted by the [[Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History]].<ref>{{cite web| url=http://clld.org | title=Cross-Linguistic Linked Data |accessdate=2020-02-22}}</ref>
