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A linguistic map is a thematic map showing the geographic distribution of the speakers of a language, or isoglosses of a dialect continuum of the same language, or language family. A collection of such maps is a linguistic atlas.
The World Atlas of Languages is an online platform that reflects the dynamism and depths of the global linguistic diversity. It provides accurate, reliable, up-to-date and robust data on the world’s languages.
- Visualization of The Geography of Linguistic Features
- Visualization of The Geography of Languages
- Visualization of Linguistic Distances Between Varieties
- Visualization of Language Classification
- Visualization of Processes in Language History
- “Mental Maps”
- Correlations of Linguistic and Non-Linguistic Features
Dialect maps traditionally depict single features or small bundles of interconnected features, mainly on the lexical and phonetic level. An example is Fig. 1, which shows the distribution of the different word forms for “tadpole” and their pronunciation variants in the Czech dialects (Czech linguistic atlas, ČJA; Balhar et al. 1993–2005). Figure 2,...
The topographic delimitation of languages and their borders is one possible outcome of the aggregate analysis of language maps. While on the one hand there are no algorithms for deducing sharp language borders from isoglosses of feature areas (however, cf. Sects. 3.1.2 and 3.1.4 for formalized ways of visualizing continuous transition between featu...
Maps of this type are the result of quantitative aggregate analyses of linguistic features. While Haag’s 1898 map of a dialect transition zone in southern Germany already represents distances between varieties, most work in this typology is quite recent and involves elaborate statistical methods. Figure 4 (Wieling et al. 2014, p. 688) features surf...
Another objective of language mapping is the classification of languages. Figure 5 (Manni 2017, p. 190) is a three-dimensional representation of clusters of varieties in Gabon in Equatorial Africa, based on analyses of data recorded for the “Linguistic Atlas of Gabon” project (cf. Manni 2017, pp. 159–161). Lines delimit approximate borders between ...
The lines in Fig. 7 show the spread of pronouns in Pacific Pidgin English, eventually attested in the entire area. The pronouns originated in the places where they are signed inside the blue boxes and then moved along the red lines first to the locations marked with the red triangle “2” and then later on to the locations marked with the green trian...
Unlike all other language maps discussed in this chapter, the so-called mental maps are not directly grounded in linguistic data but in what people think they know about language areas or the geographic extent of linguistic features. Figures 8 and 9 are surface maps from Rabanus and Lameli’s (2011) survey of the ideas about Italy’s dialects and min...
Linguistic features can be correlated to social and cultural facts. The most frequently mapped correlation is the one with speaker age as in Fig. 4 for lexical differences in the Italian region of Tuscany. The left column maps depict the likelihood of standard-different vocabulary in the speech of older speakers; the right column maps refer to the ...
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What and why? The World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS) provides the reader with 160 maps showing the geographical distribution of structural linguistic features. When it was first published in book form in 2005, it was a quite novel type of atlas.
High-resolution linguistic maps from De Gruyter’s archives, some of them presented for the first time in digital format ; Enriched with detailed metadata allowing specific searches (eleven categories for the advanced search) Map interface allows zooming, printing, and PDF export
May 24, 2017 · This reference work on language geography provides an overview of dialectology, language and ethnicity, language dynamics, and very basic methods in language mapping. Part 1 provides a serviceable, if outdated, introduction to the field.
Language maps and ethnicity maps. Map of languages in Europe by linguistic groups. Italian dialects (interactive map) Genes and languages in the Caucasus. Map collection for the Greater Middle East from the Gulf2000 Project. Turkic languages. NativeWeb Resources: Maps. Languages of the Greater North Pacific Region.
