Datasets:

lukeslp
/

world-languages

license: cc-by-4.0
task_categories:
  - feature-extraction
tags:
  - linguistics
  - languages
  - typology
  - glottolog
  - wals
  - endangered-languages
  - language-families
  - geospatial
size_categories:
  - 1K<n<10K

World Languages: 7,130 Languages with Coordinates and Features

Where are the world's 7,000+ languages spoken, and what makes each one unique? This dataset provides geographic coordinates, linguistic features, and demographic data for every documented living language.

World Languages integrates three authoritative sources:

• Glottolog: The definitive catalog of the world's languages, dialects, and language families with ISO 639-3 codes and Glottocodes • WALS (World Atlas of Language Structures): Typological features like word order (SOV, SVO, etc.), tone systems, case marking, and grammatical gender • Ethnologue/UNESCO data: Speaker populations and endangerment status (from 'vigorous' to 'extinct')

Key fields include:

Geographic coordinates (latitude/longitude) for language homelands
Language family classification (Indo-European, Sino-Tibetan, Niger-Congo, etc.)
Macroarea (Africa, Eurasia, Pacific, Americas, etc.)
Structural features: phoneme count, syllable structure, word order
Endangerment status and estimated speaker count

Applications include linguistic typology research, language documentation planning, geographic visualization of language diversity, and NLP resource allocation. The dataset reveals patterns like the concentration of linguistic diversity in Papua New Guinea (800+ languages) versus the relative homogeneity of Europe.

Citation

@dataset{world_languages_2026,
  title = {World Languages: 7,130 Languages with Coordinates and Features},
  author = {Steuber, Luke},
  year = {2026},
  doi = {10.5281/zenodo.18320704},
  url = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/lukeslp/world-languages}
}

License

CC-BY-4.0 -- Glottolog data requires attribution. See LICENSE.md for details.