The Classical Language Toolkit (CLTK) is a Python library offering natural language processing (NLP) for pre-modern languages.

- Source code: <https://github.com/cltk/cltk>
- PyPI: <https://pypi.org/project/cltk/>
- License: MIT (<https://github.com/cltk/cltk/blob/master/LICENSE>)

Start with the Quickstart, then explore the API Reference.

- [Quickstart](quickstart.md): basic install and minimal examples for each backend.
- [Reference](reference/index.md): complete, browsable API, generated automatically with mkdocstrings.

# Acknowledgements

The CLTK relies heavily upon several free open source projects.

- Universal Dependencies (<https://universaldependencies.org/>): Global language definitions for morphosyntax and syntactic parsing.
- Glottolog (<https://glottolog.org/>): Language metadata and classification references.
- Stanza (<https://stanfordnlp.github.io/stanza/>): Neural pipeline components used by many CLTK backends.
