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)