Harald Hammarström (born 1977 inVästerås, Sweden) is a Swedishlinguist.^[1] He is currently an Associate Senior Lecturer atUppsala University. Hammarström is especially known for his extensive work on curatingGlottolog, abibliographic database of the world's languages.^[2]

Hammarström has previously been employed as a researcher at theMax Planck Institute for the Science of Human History inJena, Germany and at theMax Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, inNijmegen, Netherlands.^[3]

His wide-ranging research interests include thehistorical linguistics andlinguistic typology of South America, Africa, andMelanesia.^[4]

• Handbook of Descriptive Language Knowledge: A Full-Scale Reference Guide for Typologists (2007)
• Unsupervised Learning of Morphology and the Languages of the World (2009)
• Linguistic Diversity and Language Evolution (2016)
• Language Isolates in the New Guinea region (2017)
• A Survey of African Languages (2018)
• An inventory of Bantu languages (2019)

• Homepage of Harald Hammarström
• Academia.edu
• ResearchGate

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