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lingtypology (version 1.1.25)

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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1.1.25

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GPL (>= 2)

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Maintainer

George Moroz

Last Published

March 2nd, 2026

Functions in lingtypology (1.1.25)

lang.country

Get language by country
country.lang

Get country by language
iso.lang

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

Download UraLex data
phonological_profiles

Number of consonants and presence of ejectives
polygon.points_fd

Get polygons from fixed distance circles around coordinates
iso3.iso1

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

Download PHOIBLE data
url.lang

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

Objects imported from other packages
polygon.points_kde

Get kernel density estimation poligon from coordinates
grambank.feature

Download Grambank data
oto_mangueanIC.feature

Download Oto-Manguean Inflectional Class Database data
lang.aff

Get languages by affiliation
lang.iso

Get language by ISO 639--3 code
lat.lang

Get latitude by language
iso_639

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

Get language by Glottocode
long.lang

Get longitude by language
level.lang

Get a level of language by language
phoible

Phoible glottolog - language correspondencies
providers

Providers
soundcomparisons

SOUNDCOMPARISONS's Language identifiers
oto_mangueanIC

Oto-Manguean Inflectional Class Database Language identifiers
iso.gltc

Get ISO 639--3 code by Glottocode
is.glottolog

Are these languages in glottolog?
subc.lang

Get subclassification by language
map.feature

Create a map
sails.feature

Download SAILS data
uralex

UraLex's Language identifiers
soundcomparisons.feature

Download SOUNDCOMPARISONS data
vanuatu.feature

Download Vanuatu Voices data
valpal.feature

Download ValPaL data
wals

WALS's Language identifiers
wals.feature

Download WALS data
afbo.feature

Download AfBo data
autotyp

AUTOTYP's Language identifiers
aff.lang

Get affiliation by language
abvd.feature

Download ABVD data
area.lang

Get macro area by language
bantu.feature

Download BANTU data
atlas.database

Create an atlas
autotyp.feature

Download AUTOTYP data
gltc.lang

Get Glottocode by language
gltc.iso

Get Glottocode by ISO 639--3 code
countries

Catalogue of countries
bantu

BANTU's Language identifiers
eurasianphonology

Eurasianphonology data
abvd

ABVD's Language identifiers
eurasianphonology.feature

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

Download frequency list
glottolog

Catalogue of languages of the world
bivaltyp.feature

Download BivalTyp data
circassian

Circassian villages in Russia