Our projects
Research that stays inside papers changes very little. Alongside the academic work, LINGACON builds places where the measurement is actually used — by statistical offices and organizations that need a standard, and by individuals curious about their own place in the world's linguistic map.
Linguistic Planet™
Most of what LINGACON publishes is written for institutions. Linguistic Planet is the other side of the project: the same research, opened up for anyone who has ever wondered where they stand on the world's language map.
It is being built around a few things you cannot do anywhere else today:
- Measure your own linguistic connectivity. Enter the languages you speak and find out what share of humanity you can actually talk to — your personal GLCI, computed on the same data as the global index.
- Get a Linguistic Passport. A document of your own linguistic profile: your repertoire, what it opens, how far in the world it reaches, and where it stops.
- Explore ALPS everywhere. Every country and territory, every continent, ranked and mapped — including the named country groups people actually argue about, from the EU to the G20.
- Understand connectivity itself. Why some enormous languages barely cross a border, why the world's most diverse countries are often the least connected, and what a single additional language does to the whole network.
Linguistic Planet will launch at linguisticplanet.com. It is also where the project's API for partners is planned — programmatic access to indices and country data for organizations that want to build on them.
L-MAS — the measurement standard
L-MAS, the LINGACON Multilingualism Assessment Standard, is the instrument the rest of the work rests on. It defines what counts as speaking a language, how to ask, and how to turn the answers into a comparable number. Five levels scale with the resources available: a single question added to a survey already in the field, a four-question module, a full battery, a national audit, or a repeating tracker that follows a population over time. Whichever level is used, the output is the same metric — ALPS — so results remain comparable across countries and across years.
The standard is free and open. Statistical offices, ministries, universities, and companies are welcome to adopt it without asking anyone's permission; the site carries the full specification, the exact question wording for each level, and practical guidance on sampling and administration.
The same site is where assessments are commissioned. If you want to know how multilingual your company, city, region, or country actually is — and how well your people can communicate across the language boundaries inside it — that is what an L-MAS assessment delivers: your ALPS score, your connectivity, and a report you can act on.
How the three fit together
lingacon.com
The research itself: papers, methodology, data, and the scientific foundation the standard rests on. This site.
linguisticplanet.com
The same research made explorable for everyone, plus the partner API. In development.
l-mas.com
The measurement standard and the assessment services built on it — for organizations, cities, and governments.