Harald Hammarström

Harald Hammarström (born 1977 in Västerås, Sweden) is a Swedish linguist. He is currently an Associate Senior Lecturer at Uppsala University. Hammarström is especially known for his extensive work on curating Glottolog, a bibliographic database of the world's languages.

Hammarström has previously been employed as a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany and at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, in Nijmegen, Netherlands.

His wide-ranging research interests include the historical linguistics and linguistic typology of South America, Africa, and Melanesia.

Selected works 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)