| { |
| "dataset_name": "Glottolog Languoid Catalog", |
| "last_updated": "2026-01-15", |
| "source": "Glottolog database (glottolog.org) - comprehensive reference for the world's languages", |
| "record_count": 23740, |
| "fields": { |
| "id": "Unique Glottolog identifier code (glottocode, e.g., 'aala1237')", |
| "family_id": "Glottocode of the language family this languoid belongs to", |
| "parent_id": "Glottocode of the immediate parent node in the classification tree", |
| "name": "Name of the languoid (language, dialect, or family)", |
| "bookkeeping": "Boolean flag for bookkeeping entries (non-linguistic administrative records)", |
| "level": "Classification level: 'family', 'language', or 'dialect'", |
| "status": "Endangerment status (e.g., 'safe', 'shifting', 'moribund', 'extinct')", |
| "latitude": "Geographic latitude of the language area centroid", |
| "longitude": "Geographic longitude of the language area centroid", |
| "iso639P3code": "ISO 639-3 language code if available", |
| "description": "Additional description text", |
| "markup_description": "Description with markup formatting", |
| "child_family_count": "Number of child family nodes in the classification tree", |
| "child_language_count": "Number of child language nodes", |
| "child_dialect_count": "Number of child dialect nodes", |
| "country_ids": "Comma-separated ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country codes where the language is spoken" |
| }, |
| "notes": "Glottolog is a comprehensive catalog of the world's languages, language families, and dialects. Each row is a 'languoid' which can be a family, language, or dialect. The hierarchical tree structure is encoded via parent_id references. Includes both living and extinct languages." |
| } |
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