Welcome to Lexibank

Lexibank is different things:

• A framework to curate lexical data. (See https://github.com/lexibank/.)
• A Zenodo community, collecting released Lexibank datasets.
• This clld web application, serving an annotated aggregation of selected data from 134 Lexibank datasets.

How to cite Lexibank 2

Please cite the Lexibank paper

List, JM., Forkel, R., Greenhill, S.J. et al. Lexibank, a public repository of standardized wordlists with computed phonological and lexical features. Sci Data 9, 316 (2022). DOI: 10.1038/s41597-022-01432-0

as well as the underlying dataset for version 2

Frederic Blum, Carlos Barrientos, Johannes Englisch, Robert Forkel, Simon J. Greenhill, Christoph Rzymski, & Johann-Mattis List. (2026). Lexibank 2: pre-computed features for large-scale lexical data (v2.2) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20712996

and its description

Blum, Frederic, Carlos Barrientos, Johannes Englisch, Robert Forkel, Simon J. Greenhill, Christoph Rzymski & Johann-Mattis List. 2025a. Lexibank 2: pre-computed features for large-scale lexical data. Open Research Europe 5(126). 1–27. https://doi.org/10.12688/openreseurope.20216.2.