diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index ec409d2..239cbe1 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ docopt==0.6.2
 spacy>=3
 python-levenshtein==0.21.1
 lingpy==2.6.9
-clldutils==3.10.1
+clldutils==3.19.0
 networkx>=2.5
 jsonlines==3.0.0
 rich==13.5.2