Showing posts with label geography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label geography. Show all posts

Saturday, August 7, 2010

Geographic dispersion

Some languages from Autotyp, colored by areal grouping.
The AUTOTYP project offers a freely downloadable CSV file containing genealogical and geographical data on ~2,700 languages. The geographical data include a division of languages into areal groups according to a system of continental and sub-continental linguistic regions, as well as geographic coordinates (latitude and longitude) that roughly approximate "what is generally considered to be the sociolinguistic center of the language," according to the manual.