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lingtypology (version 1.1.22)

Linguistic Typology and Mapping

Description

Provides R with the Glottolog database and some more abilities for purposes of linguistic mapping. The Glottolog database contains the catalogue of languages of the world. This package helps researchers to make a linguistic maps, using philosophy of the Cross-Linguistic Linked Data project , which allows for while at the same time facilitating uniform access to the data across publications. A tutorial for this package is available on GitHub pages and package vignette. Maps created by this package can be used both for the investigation and linguistic teaching. In addition, package provides an ability to download data from typological databases such as WALS, AUTOTYP and some others and to create your own database website.

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install.packages('lingtypology')

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1.1.22

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GPL (>= 2)

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Maintainer

George Moroz

Last Published

June 14th, 2025

Functions in lingtypology (1.1.22)

area.lang

Get macro area by language
abvd

ABVD's Language identifiers
country.lang

Get country by language
lang.country

Get language by country
grambank.feature

Download Grambank data
aff.lang

Get affiliation by language
level.lang

Get a level of language by language
imports

Objects imported from other packages
bivaltyp.feature

Download BivalTyp data
is.glottolog

Are these languages in glottolog?
bantu.feature

Download BANTU data
polygon.points_kde

Get kernel density estimation poligon from coordinates
iso.gltc

Get ISO 639--3 code by Glottocode
polygon.points_fd

Get polygons from fixed distance circles around coordinates
long.lang

Get longitude by language
abvd.feature

Download ABVD data
countries

Catalogue of countries
bantu

BANTU's Language identifiers
circassian

Circassian villages in Russia
lang.gltc

Get language by Glottocode
eurasianphonology

Eurasianphonology data
lang.iso

Get language by ISO 639--3 code
map.feature

Create a map
oto_mangueanIC

Oto-Manguean Inflectional Class Database Language identifiers
sails.feature

Download SAILS data
phoible.feature

Download PHOIBLE data
iso.lang

Get ISO 639--3 code by language
phonological_profiles

Number of consonants and presence of ejectives
providers

Providers
oto_mangueanIC.feature

Download Oto-Manguean Inflectional Class Database data
subc.lang

Get subclassification by language
lat.lang

Get latitude by language
iso3.iso1

Get ISO 639-3 code from ISO 639-1
eurasianphonology.feature

Opens data from the database of Eurasian phonological inventories
frequency_list.feature

Download frequency list
valpal.feature

Download ValPaL data
vanuatu.feature

Download Vanuatu Voices data
uralex.feature

Download UraLex data
uralex

UraLex's Language identifiers
phoible

Phoible glottolog - language correspondencies
glottolog

Catalogue of languages of the world
wals.feature

Download WALS data
wals

WALS's Language identifiers
url.lang

Make a url-link to glottolog page for a language
soundcomparisons

SOUNDCOMPARISONS's Language identifiers
soundcomparisons.feature

Download SOUNDCOMPARISONS data
gltc.iso

Get Glottocode by ISO 639--3 code
gltc.lang

Get Glottocode by language
lang.aff

Get languages by affiliation
iso_639

ISO 639-3 is a set of codes that defines three-letter identifiers for all known human languages.
atlas.database

Create an atlas
autotyp

AUTOTYP's Language identifiers
autotyp.feature

Download AUTOTYP data
afbo.feature

Download AfBo data