CLDF by Example

Published CLDF Structure Datasets

  • The World Atlas of Language Structures, WALS Online: DOI
  • South American Indigenous Language Structures (SAILS): DOI

  • More Structure Datasets on Zenodo

    If you archive your CLDF Structure Datasets on Zenodo, make sure to add the keyword cldf:StructureDataset and consider submitting them to the CLDF datasets community.

Published CLDF Wordlists

  • The Intercontinental Dictionary Series (IDS): DOI
  • The World Loanword Database (WOLD): DOI

  • More Wordlists on Zenodo

    If you archive your CLDF Wordlists on Zenodo, make sure to add the keyword cldf:Wordlist and consider submitting them to the CLDF datasets community.

Published CLDF Dictionaries

The dictionaries published by the Dictionaria journal are available as CLDF Dictionary datasets collected in the Dictionaria community on Zenodo.

If you archive your CLDF Dictionary on Zenodo, make sure to add the keyword cldf:Dictionary. and consider submitting them to the CLDF datasets community.

The CLDF cookbook

The CLDF Cookbook has a collection of short tutorials for reading, writing and re-using CLDF data; among others Creating CLDF from Excel and Accessing CLDF data from R.

Examples for different CLDF modules

The CLDF specification provides commented examples on the usage of various CLDF modules. These examples are available in the GitHub repository.

Examples for working with CLDF programmatically

The pycldf package provides functionality to programmatically manipulate CLDF datasets. Examples for its usage are available in the GitHub repository.