roadmap.md

Major Versions

• 2026-Q2: v1.0 release with user feedback, database backend, UX revamp, keyboard data.
• 2025-11-08: Beta release with censuses, IANA variant tags, maps, filters and advanced search.
• 2025-Summer: Alpha release with core functionality for exploring languages, territories, locales, and writing systems.

Functionality

Here's a list of planned functionality. Completed functions are checked off.

• Language-adjacent objects
  • Languages
    • Core attributes
    • ISO parent/child connections
    • Language families
    • Glottolog
    • Digital Support details
    • Vitality details
    • Keyboard availability details
  • Territories
    • Countries & Dependencies
    • Continents & other regions
  • Locales (languages + territories + potentially other specificity)
    • Basic data
    • Computed regional locales
    • Population estimate sources
  • Writing Systems
    • Basic data
    • Relationship w/ other writing systems (containment, lineage)
  • Language Variants / IANA tags
  • Censuses
    • Regular censuses
    • Include citation information
    • Continue importing new censuses
    • Convert other imported datasets into census-like objects
• Views
  • Cards
  • Details
  • Hierarchy
  • Table
  • Map
    • Extend for more data layers
  • Graphs
  • Reports
    • Language name overlap
    • Invalid languages
    • Locales that should be added
    • Metrics on the data we have
• Interactivity
  • Search
    • By Code
    • By Name, Endonym
    • Highlight search
    • For Hierarchy
    • Using typeahead
    • When few results are shown, suggest alternatives
  • Filter
    • By Scope
    • By Country
    • Integrate in search bar
  • Hovercard & Tooltips
    • Related objects
    • Field explanations
  • Sort By: Population, Name, Code
  • Limit
    • Pagination
  • Visual options
    • Change locale separator (_ or -)
  • Selection
  • Export
• Manage data sources
  • Show results based on different definitions of what a language is
    • ISO, Glottolog, CLDR, All
    • Highlight language codes in each
  • Add a better guide for different kinds of users
• About Page
  • Introduction, how to use
  • Acknowledgements
• Future ideas
  • Database-powered backend
  • Feedback mechanisms
  • Metrics