glottolog: Search languages

API: glottolog.org:glottolog-api
Endpoint: /glottolog
Response format: application/json
Auth: none
Method: GET
Last Status: 200
Latency: 902ms

Description

Search for languages, families, and dialects by name, ISO code, Glottocode, or country. Returns HTML that redirects to the matching resource.

Parameters (7)

alnum (string, query, optional)

Filter by Glottocode

Constraints: {'pattern': '^[a-z]{4}[0-9]{4}$'}

country (string, query, optional)

Filter by country name or ISO code

iso (string, query, optional)

Filter by ISO 639-3 code

Constraints: {'pattern': '^[a-z]{3}$'}

multilingual (boolean, query, optional)

Include non-English names

name (string, query, optional)

Filter by language name (primary or alternative)

namequerytype (string, query, optional, default: part)

Name matching type

Constraints: {'enum': ['whole', 'part']}

search (string, query, optional)

Search query - can be a language name, ISO 639-3 code, or Glottocode

Examples (1)

Search languages openapi-spec
curl 'https://glottolog.org/glottolog?search=english&iso=eng&alnum=stan1293&country=PG'
import requests

resp = requests.get(
    "https://glottolog.org/glottolog",
    params={
        'search': 'english',
        'iso': 'eng',
        'alnum': 'stan1293',
        'country': 'PG',
    },
)
data = resp.json()
import zingu_apis

api = zingu_apis.api("glottolog")
result = api.fetch("glottolog", search="english", iso="eng", alnum="stan1293", country="PG")

for item in result:
    print(item)
const resp = await fetch("https://glottolog.org/glottolog?search=english&iso=eng&alnum=stan1293&country=PG");
const data = await resp.json();

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