Grambank reveals the importance of genealogical constraints on linguistic diversity and highlights the impact of language loss Grambank reveals global patterns in linguistic diversity

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'Harald Hammarström' 'Jeremy Collins' 'Jay J. Latarche' 'Jakob Lesage' 'Tobias Weber' 'Alena Witzlack-Makarevich' 'Sam Passmore' 'Angela Chira' 'Luke Maurits' 'Russell Dinnage' 'Michael Dunn' 'Ger Reesink' 'Ruth Singer' 'Claire Bowern' 'Patience Epps' 'Jane Hill' 'Outi Vesakoski' 'Martine Robbeets' 'Noor Karolin Abbas' 'Daniel Auer' 'Nancy A. Bakker' 'Giulia Barbos' 'Robert D. Borges' 'Swintha Danielsen' 'Luise Dorenbusch' 'Ella Dorn' 'John Elliott' 'Giada Falcone' 'Jana Fischer' 'Yustinus Ghanggo Ate' 'Hannah Gibson' 'Hans-Philipp Göbel' 'Jemima A. Goodall' 'Victoria Gruner' 'Andrew Harvey' 'Rebekah Hayes' 'Leonard Heer' 'Roberto E. Herrera Miranda' 'Nataliia Hübler' 'Biu Huntington-Rainey' 'Jessica K. Ivani' 'Marilen Johns' 'Erika Just' 'Eri Kashima' 'Carolina Kipf' 'Janina V. Klingenberg' 'Nikita König' 'Aikaterina Koti' 'Richard G.\xa0A. Kowalik' 'Olga Krasnoukhova' 'Nora L.\xa0M. Lindvall' 'Mandy Lorenzen' 'Hannah Lutzenberger' 'Tânia R.\xa0A. Martins' 'Celia Mata German' 'Suzanne van der Meer' 'Jaime Montoya Samamé' 'Michael Müller' 'Saliha Muradoglu' 'Kelsey Neely' 'Johanna Nickel' 'Miina Norvik' 'Cheryl Akinyi Oluoch' 'Jesse Peacock' 'India O.\xa0C. Pearey' 'Naomi Peck' 'Stephanie Petit' 'Sören Pieper' 'Mariana Poblete' 'Daniel Prestipino' 'Linda Raabe' 'Amna Raja' 'Janis Reimringer' 'Sydney C. Rey' 'Julia Rizaew' 'Eloisa Ruppert' 'Kim K. Salmon' 'Jill Sammet' 'Rhiannon Schembri' 'Lars Schlabbach' 'Frederick W.\xa0P. Schmidt' 'Amalia Skilton' 'Wikaliler Daniel Smith' 'Hilário de Sousa' 'Kristin Sverredal' 'Daniel Valle' 'Javier Vera' 'Judith Voß' 'Tim Witte' 'Henry Wu' 'Stephanie Yam' 'Jingting Ye' 'Maisie Yong' 'Tessa Yuditha' 'Roberto Zariquiey' 'Robert Forkel' 'Nicholas Evans' 'Stephen C. Levinson' 'Martin Haspelmath' 'Simon J. Greenhill' 'Quentin D. Atkinson' 'Russell D. Gray'] While global patterns of human genetic diversity are increasingly well characterized, the diversity of human languages remains less systematically described. Here, we outline the Grambank database. With over 400,000 data points and 2400 languages, Grambank is the largest comparative grammatical database available.