A curated global dataset of social contact between diverse language communities

Author(s):
Kashima, E.; Garbo, F. Di; Raatikainen, O.; Forkel, R.; Avelino, R.; Beck, S.; Berge, A.; Blanco Pena, A.; Bowden, R.; Brid, N.; Brincat, J.M.; Carpio, M.B.; Cobbinah, A.; Cúneo, P.; Deginet, W.D.; Fehn, A.-M.; Gholami, S.; Ghosh, A.; Gibson, H.; Hall, E.; Hannß, K.; Haynie, H.; Jacka, J.J.; Jenny, M.; Kowalik, R.; Kulkarni-Joshi, S.; Mous, M.P.G.M. (0000-0001-5867-5180); Mendoza, M.; Messineo, C.; Moro, F.R.; Nater, H.; Ocasio, M.; Olsson, B.; Ospina Bozzi, A.M.; Paredes, A.; Phiri, A.; Quint, N.; Sandman, E.; Schokkin, D.; Singer, R.; Smith-Dennis, E.; Souag, L.; Sulistyono, Y.; Treis, Y.; Urban, M.; Vaughan, J.; Ziegelmeyer, G.; Zikmundová, V.; Souza, R. Napoleão de; Sinnemäki, K.
Published
2025
Publication type
Article / Letter to editor

Abstract

The GramAdapt Social Contact Dataset is a curated dataset of 34 language pairs withqualitative and quantifiable data on social interaction and aspects of societal multilingualism.The language pairs were sampled globally to represent the world’s linguistic diversity.the dataset can be used to interrogate the social dimensions of language contactindependently or in conjunction with appropriate linguistic data. The data were collectedby distributing a questionnaire to experts who have experience with either one or bothof the language communities of a pair. The data represent subjective expert assessmentsbased on choices from predetermined answers which can be quantified. Authors 1, 2 and 3manually checked the response to identify possible misjudgments or misunderstandings.This results in a dataset containing 13,493 data points. This dataset is a first of its kind inthe field of linguistics, built upon wide findings from sociolinguistics, historical linguistics,psycholinguistics, and linguistic anthropology.

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Date issued
2025-12-11
Language
English
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Is part of
Scientific Data (2025), 1958
hdl
1887/4285796
doi
10.1038/s41597-025-06192-1
URL
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-025-06192-1