LINGACON

Institutional cooperation

Working with institutions is not a sideline to this research — it is how the research reaches the world and how it sustains itself. LINGACON takes no external funding: partnerships are what allow the datasets to stay open and the next study to be run.

Below is what we offer and what we look for. If your case is not on the list, describe it anyway — this is a young field and the useful arrangements are still being invented.

Measurement and assessment

National assessments for governments and statistical offices

A full L-MAS Level 3 or Level 4 assessment produces publication-quality national ALPS data with confidence intervals, regional breakdown, and connectivity analysis. LINGACON designs the instrument, supports sampling, trains enumerators where needed, and delivers the analysis.

The cheapest path is often the most overlooked one: if your office already runs a census or a regular household survey, adding a single standardized question yields a comparable national figure at close to no marginal cost. We provide the wording and the analysis; you keep the data.

Companies, cities, and regions

For multinational employers: how multilingual is your workforce, and where exactly does communication break down between your offices? For municipalities and regions: which languages does your population actually speak, and are your public services, schools, and emergency communications reaching them?

Both are delivered as an ALPS score plus a connectivity analysis, benchmarked against comparable countries or organizations, with the underlying data handed over to you.

Longitudinal tracking

A single measurement is a snapshot. Repeating it on a defined cycle turns it into evidence: whether a language-education policy worked, whether an integration programme changed anything, whether international expansion actually raised your organization's internal connectivity. This is L-MAS Level 5, run as a standing arrangement.

Data and technology

Data licensing

Beyond the openly published headline datasets, LINGACON holds language-by-language national detail, pairwise connectivity matrices, sub-national and regional breakdowns, and named country-group aggregates. These are licensed on commercial terms for use outside academic research — market analysis, product localization, policy work, and reporting.

In development

API access

For partners who want the indices inside their own products or dashboards rather than in a spreadsheet: programmatic access to ALPS, connectivity data, and country profiles. The API is being built as part of Linguistic Planet; organizations interested in early access are welcome to say so now, while the interface can still be shaped around real use cases.

Custom country and regional reports

A commissioned report on a specific country, region, or group of countries: the full linguistic profile, the connectivity picture inside and outward, comparison with peers, and the implications for whatever question prompted it.

Research and visibility

Joint and sponsored research

Several studies on our agenda are ready to run and waiting on resources — measuring every US state separately, mapping India's internal connectivity, examining why the world's largest language barely crosses its own border. An institution, foundation, or company can underwrite one of these and see it published openly, with the sponsor acknowledged and the findings free for everyone.

Academic collaboration works the same way in the other direction: if your team is working on language demography, communication networks, or migration, our data and methodology are open to joint work.

Advertising and sponsorship on our platforms

LINGACON's public-facing projects reach an audience that is, by definition, interested in languages, travel, education, and international communication — language schools, publishers, translation and localization services, universities, and cultural institutions among them. Sponsorship and advertising placements on Linguistic Planet and across the project's properties are available, in formats that keep the research independent and clearly separated from commercial content.

Media, education, and expert commentary

Journalists and data desks are welcome to use published figures with attribution, and we are glad to explain what a number does and does not support before it appears in print. Universities and educational publishers can license the datasets and visual materials for teaching.

Get in touch

Tell us who you are, what you want to know, and on what timeline. For assessments it helps to know the population or headcount involved and how linguistically diverse you expect it to be — that, far more than size, is what determines the scope of the work.

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