Lexibank is a linguistics database managed by the

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, Germany. The database consists of over 100 standardized wordlists (datasets) that are independently curated.

Description

Lexibank datasets are presented in the Cross-Linguistic Data Format (CLDF).Forkel, R. et al
Cross-Linguistic Data Formats
advancing data sharing and reuse in comparative linguistics. ''Sci. Data.'' 5:180205 (2018). Phonological and lexical features are automatically computed in Lexibank. The datasets are publicly accessible and are archived at

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and are also publicly available on

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. Lexibank is also part of the

Cross-Linguistic Linked Data The Cross-Linguistic Linked Data (CLLD) project coordinated over a dozen linguistics databases covering the languages of the world. It is hosted by the Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary An ...

project. All of the datasets are released under the CC BY 4.0 license. Applications of the database include

historical linguistics Historical linguistics, also known as diachronic linguistics, is the scientific study of how languages change over time. It seeks to understand the nature and causes of linguistic change and to trace the evolution of languages. Historical li ...

and comparative

phonology Phonology (formerly also phonemics or phonematics: "phonemics ''n.'' 'obsolescent''1. Any procedure for identifying the phonemes of a language from a corpus of data. 2. (formerly also phonematics) A former synonym for phonology, often pre ...

List of datasets

The following is a list of Lexibank (version 0.2) datasets as of 17 June 2022.

Bibliography

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Supplementary material

References

External links

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Lexibank community on ZenodoMaster list of wordlist datasetsGlottobank
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