---
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