glottolog

A dataset containes the original catalogue of languages of the world
involving genealogical affiliation, macro-area, country, iso code,
and coordinates.

datasets

Provides R with the Glottolog database <http://glottolog.org> 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 <http://clld.org/>, 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 <https://docs.ropensci.org/lingtypology/> 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.

George Moroz

lingtypology

Linguistic Typology and Mapping

glottolog function

A data frame with 20290 rows and 8 variables:<dl class="dl-horizontal">
 <dt>affiliation</dt><dd>genealogical affiliation</dd>
 <dt>glottocode</dt><dd>languoid code from Glottolog 4.1</dd>
 <dt>language</dt><dd>name of the language</dd>
 <dt>iso</dt><dd>code based on ISO 639--3 <a href="http://www-01.sil.org/iso639-3/">http://www-01.sil.org/iso639-3/</a></dd>
 <dt>level</dt><dd>languoid type: dialect or language</dd>
 <dt>longitude</dt><dd>longitude</dd>
 <dt>latitude</dt><dd>latitude</dd>
 <dt>area</dt><dd>have six values Africa, Australia, Eurasia, North America, Papunesia, South America</dd>
</dl>

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Catalogue of languages of the world — glottolog

A data frame with 20290 rows and 8 variables:<dl class='dl-horizontal'>
 <dt>affiliation</dt><dd>genealogical affiliation</dd>
 <dt>glottocode</dt><dd>languoid code from Glottolog 4.1</dd>
 <dt>language</dt><dd>name of the language</dd>
 <dt>iso</dt><dd>code based on ISO 639--3 <a href='http://www-01.sil.org/iso639-3/'>http://www-01.sil.org/iso639-3/</a></dd>
 <dt>level</dt><dd>languoid type: dialect or language</dd>
 <dt>longitude</dt><dd>longitude</dd>
 <dt>latitude</dt><dd>latitude</dd>
 <dt>area</dt><dd>have six values Africa, Australia, Eurasia, North America, Papunesia, South America</dd>
</dl>

glottolog: Catalogue of languages of the world

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