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Glottocode

A stable identifier for a language, family or dialect — four letters and four digits, like ainu1240.

Glottolog assigns every languoid — its term covering families, languages and dialects alike — “a unique and persistent identifier called Glottocode”, consisting of four alphanumeric characters followed by four digits: ainu1240.

Names are unreliable keys. A language may be known by several, some of them names for the people rather than the language, and the same name can attach to different varieties in different sources. A Glottocode does not move.

Every profile here records one, and the build checks it against Glottolog. That check has already earned itself: three profiles cited the code for a whole family rather than the language, which is invisible when the code is buried in a link and obvious when it is a field.