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  • Ethnologue: Languages of the World, an encyclopedic reference work cataloging all of the world's 7,159 known living languages. Searchable by country, language size, and language family. Free registration is required. Also available as data.
  • CEPII looks at Common Official Language (COL), Common Spoken Language (CSL), Common Native Language (CNL) and  Linguistic Proximity.
  • The World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS) is a large database of structural (phonological, grammatical, lexical) properties of languages gathered from descriptive materials (such as reference grammars).
  • Atlas of the World’s Languages: Digitized version of Asher and Moseley’s Atlas of the World’s Languages, it presents 6,992 distinct language areas as GIS polygons and links each polygon to a Glottocode — a unique identifier for languages and language varieties. 
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