Language Navigator

This repository contain a dataset about the world's languages and language-like objects as well as a website framework to visualize the information.

There are multiple ways to visualize the data

Card List	Hierarchy	Table	Reports	Map

Project Overview

Motivation

This website was put together to give an overview of the world's languages and language-related concepts. Similar to Ethnologue & Glottolog, the main differences of this are to:

• Free & open to all consumers.
• Show all data, even contested language definitions. Making sure to put contested data in context.
• Provide actionable insights -- make sure the data is clear enough that consumers can come to this page to get answers.

Common questions people will come to this resource for are:

• What's the language code for XXXX?
• What languages are used in country YYYY?
• What are the top languages in the world given some criteria.

Tech Stack

• Frontend: The website is rendered in Javascript, particularly React using Typescript.
• Backend: The framework of the website Node and Vite.
• Data: Data files are written in Tab-separated-value format (tsv).

Partners

We've partnered with various organizations to get data and to provide data to. UNESCO's World Atlas of Languages, Digital Language Vitality, and Unicode CLDR

Data

The data comes from multiple sources, primarily CLDR, Ethnologue, and Glottolog.

Development Instructions

In order to generate the website on an internal server, follow these instructions.

1. Install Node Project Manager, see the official Node documentation for install
2. Download the repository to your computer -- go to that folder when you are done
3. Run npm install to install relevant Node and Vite packageas
4. Run npm run dev to start the server with some dev options
   1. or npm run build for the public version
5. Depending on what port is used, the website can now be accessed using a local browser at a URL like http://localhost:5173/

See onboarding.md for more detailed instructions on setting up a development environment.

How to contribute

See contributing.md for details on how to contribute to this project.

Roadmap

See roadmap.md for the planned features and timeline of major versions.

License

• The code in this repository is licensed under the MIT License.
• The language data, visualizations, and other content are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International.