Glottolog will be continuously expanded and improved with the help of their users. The input of expert linguists is crucial.

Glottolog is an initiative of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena. It should be cited as follows:

Hammarström, Harald & Forkel, Robert & Haspelmath, Martin & Bank, Sebastian. 2020.

Glottolog 4.2.1.

Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3754591

(Available online at http://glottolog.org, Accessed on 2020-09-30.)



Particularly important contributors to the Langdoc database are Alain Fabre, Jouni Maho and SIL International. For more details, see the Credits page.

The data published by Glottolog is curated in the public GitHub repository glottolog/glottolog. The Glottolog web application at https://glottolog.org serves the latest released version of the data in this repository.

You may report errors you found in Glottolog using this repositories issue tracker.