LICENSE.md

License Information

This dataset combines data from multiple sources with different licenses.

Integration Work (MIT)

The integration, curation, and merging of sources into world_languages_integrated.json is original work by Luke Steuber, released under the MIT License.

Copyright (c) 2026 Luke Steuber

Glottolog (CC-BY-4.0)

Geographic coordinates, language family classification, glottocodes, and macroareas are from Glottolog (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology).

Hammarstrom, Harald & Forkel, Robert & Haspelmath, Martin & Bank, Sebastian. 2024. Glottolog 5.0. https://glottolog.org

Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Joshua Project (Public API)

Speaker population aggregates, Bible translation status, and religion data from the Joshua Project public API (https://joshuaproject.net).

Combined Dataset

This compiled dataset is released under CC-BY-4.0 with requirements to:

1. Credit Glottolog for language classification and geographic data
2. Credit Joshua Project for population and demographic data

Citation

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