Language properties in PHOIBLE

This is a reference sheet for language properties in Psmith's copy of the PHOIBLE database.

`source`

The contributor of the inventory. Documented on the PHOIBLE home page.

`language_code`

The ISO 639-3 code of the language.

`language_name`

The name of the language according to the source.

`language_family_root`

A four-character abbreviation for the language family or non-cladistic category, out of a set of 107. A complete table is not currently available, but an incomplete table is given below:

afas	Afroasiatic
algi	Algic
altc	Altaic
anes	Austronesian
asis	Asian isolate
ausa	Austroasiatic
aust	Australian
cadd	Caddoan
drav	Dravidian
epap	East Papuan
eska	Eskimo-Aleut
hmom	Hmong-Mien
hoka	Hokan
ieur	Indo-European
kart	Kartvelian
khoi	Khoisan
nadn	Na-Dene
ncau	North Caucasian
ncon	Niger-Congo
sali	Salishan
sepr	Sepik-Ramu
sitb	Sino-Tibetan
taik	Tai-Kadai
trng	Trans-New Guinea
urlc	Uralic
waka	Wakashan
yeos	Yeniseian

`language_family_genus`

The name of the language genus; e.g. Romance, Munda, Semitic, Samoyedic.

`country`

The country in which the language is spoken. Territorially disjunct autonomous constituents (e.g. New Caledonia, Greenland, Guam) are treated as their own countries, but territorially disjunct regions (e.g. Hawaii, French Guiana, Kaliningrad) are not. This is not necessarily accurate: the doculect Carib (French Guiana dialect) is listed as spoken in Venezuela. There can only be one country in this field.

`area`

One of the following five values: Africa, America, Asia, Europe, Pacific.

`population`

A population estimate for the language.

`latitude, longitude`

Estimated coordinates for a location in which the area is spoken.