Language Contexts articles that are published in the LDD journal describe the contemporary contexts in which languages or varieties are spoken, rather than focussing on their structure. They aim to provide detailed up-to-date social, cultural, and ethnographic information to complement existing reference sources such as Glottolog, Ethnologue or ELCat. Articles cover topics such as speaker demography, social organisation, culture, linguistic ecology, language vitality, language use and transmission in the community and its diaspora, the range of languages/varieties in use by speakers, and socio-cultural factors affecting language/variety choice.

Here we provide a curated listing of Language Contexts articles organised by geographical area with links to the published article in LDD.