| --- |
| license: other |
| task_categories: |
| - feature-extraction |
| language: |
| - en |
| tags: |
| - linguistics |
| - languages |
| - typology |
| - phonology |
| - glottolog |
| - wals |
| - phoible |
| - endangered-languages |
| - language-families |
| - geospatial |
| pretty_name: World Language Data Collection |
| size_categories: |
| - 10K<n<100K |
| --- |
| |
| # World Language Data Collection |
|
|
| 23,740 languages: Glottolog, WALS, PHOIBLE + integrated world languages |
|
|
| Curated collection of linguistic datasets with original integration work. Includes geographic coordinates, typological features, phonological inventories, language family trees, and an integrated world languages dataset merging Glottolog, Joshua Project, and language history data. Original work under MIT; source data under CC-BY-4.0 (Glottolog, WALS) and CC-BY-SA-3.0 (PHOIBLE). |
|
|
| ## Dataset Structure |
|
|
| See `demo_notebook.ipynb` for data exploration examples. |
|
|
| ## Usage |
|
|
| ```python |
| from datasets import load_dataset |
| |
| # Load the dataset |
| dataset = load_dataset("lukeslp/language-data") |
| |
| # Or load from local files |
| import json |
| with open('data.json') as f: |
| data = json.load(f) |
| ``` |
|
|
| ## Citation |
|
|
| ```bibtex |
| @dataset{language_data_2026, |
| title = {World Language Data Collection}, |
| author = {Steuber, Luke}, |
| year = {2026}, |
| url = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/lukeslp/language-data} |
| } |
| ``` |
|
|
|
|
| ## Distribution |
|
|
| - **GitHub**: [lukeslp/language-data](https://github.com/lukeslp/language-data) |
| - **Kaggle**: [lucassteuber/language-data](https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/lucassteuber/language-data) |
|
|
| ## Author |
|
|
| **Luke Steuber** |
| - Website: [lukesteuber.com](https://lukesteuber.com) |
| - Bluesky: [@lukesteuber.com](https://bsky.app/profile/lukesteuber.com) |
| - Email: luke@lukesteuber.com |
|
|
| ## License |
|
|
| MIT |
|
|
