Glottocode (Glottolog language identifier)
ID glottocode
DatatypeNot PIIidentifierDraft
This record is a draft: it has not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong. Do not rely on it for compliance decisions. Help improve it (see CONTRIBUTING.md).
Identifier of a language, dialect or language family in the Glottolog catalogue. It has four lowercase letters or digits, usually taken from the name, and four digits. Unlike ISO 639-3 (iso639_3) it also covers families and dialects.
- Categories
- Common, Scientific
- Countries
- Global (not tied to a country)
- Languages
- Common to most languages
- Wikidata
- P1394
- Quality
- 90/100 · missing: detector coverage
- Metacrafter rules
- no detection rule yet
- Supported by tools
- no tool record lists this type yet
Regular expression
^[a-z0-9]{4}\d{4}$
Python re syntax.
Examples
| Value | Description |
|---|---|
| stan1293 | English |
| russ1263 | Russian |
| sign1238 | Pseudo-family of sign languages |
| stan129 invalid | Three digits |
Translations
| Language | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Russian | Код языка Glottolog (глоттокод) |
Sources
- doc: https://glottolog.org/glottolog/glottologinformation
- wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1394
Use this record
- Page URL:
https://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/glottocode - JSON: API v1 · legacy shape (used by metacrafter) · Markdown (for LLMs)
- Improve it: edit
data/datatypes/any/common/glottocode.yamlon GitHub