Contact

We welcome proposals of every kind. This is a young field with few established conventions, and a message you are not sure is worth sending may well be.

Write to us about any of the following, or about something not on the list:

• Research and collaboration. Joint work, replication, secondary analysis, criticism of our methods, or a study you think should exist. If you work on language demography, communication networks, migration, or education policy, there is probably common ground.
• Institutional cooperation. Governments, statistical offices, universities, foundations and international organizations, including a standardized question added to a survey you already run, the least costly way to obtain a comparable national figure.
• Assessments. Companies, cities, and regions wanting to measure their own multilingualism and internal connectivity.
• Data and API access. Data beyond the open deposit, custom country reports, and programmatic access. An API for partners is planned as part of Linguistic Planet; organizations interested in early access are welcome to say so.
• Sponsorship. Underwriting a named study.
• Media. Journalists and data desks are welcome to use published figures with attribution, citing the paper they come from; we are glad to explain in advance what a number does and does not support.

If you are proposing an assessment or a partnership, it helps to include the population or headcount involved, how linguistically diverse you expect it to be, and your timeline. Diversity, more than size, determines the scope of the work.