About Glottosphere

Glottosphere is a free dictionary built around one idea: every word in a definition is a link. Click a word to see its own definition, and keep going, within a language or across languages.

Humanity speaks more than 7,000 languages. Most dictionaries cover a few dozen of them. The goal here is to give every language a place: a dictionary where one exists, and at least a profile with its family, where it is spoken, how many people speak it and how endangered it is.

What is here today

Dictionaries for 87 languages, about 7,347,310 entries in total.
Profiles of 3,427 languages.
Language family trees.

Where the data comes from

Most dictionary entries are derived from Wiktionary, extracted by Kaikki.org, and are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
Language classification, areas and countries follow Glottolog (CC BY 4.0).
Language codes follow ISO 639-3.
Endangerment status comes from the Endangered Languages Project.

Dictionaries for small languages are incomplete, and speaker numbers are estimates that differ between sources. Corrections are welcome.

Contact

Write to [email protected].