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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 atlas provides information on the location, linguistic affiliation and basic typological features of a great number of the world's languages. It interacts with OpenStreetMap maps. The information of the atlas is published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.
1 Maps of languages. 2 Indo-European. 3 Europe. 4 Russia. 5 Africa. 6 Americas. 7 Asia. 8 Notes and references. 9 Entries available in the atlas. Atlas of languages.
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The atlas should include: 1. entries with maps on world level 2. entries for each continent and the oceans 3. entries for each country, de facto-country and dependency around the world. Each entry should have a 3.1. general section with geographical and political maps 3.1.1. maps of administrative divisions should be layouted in a gallery 3.2. hist...
User:Electionworld (Talk) - The NetherlandsUser:Briangotts (Talk) - USAUser:Rarelibra (Talk) - USAUser:52 Pickup (Talk) - , (living in )User:Sj (Talk) - USAThe Wikimedia atlas of the world entries are in development. --- Edit this to do list You can add a map or Copy a map to commons. The following Wikipedia maps should be uploaded to commons first. The entries are in the following stadia:
Language Maps. The Ethnologue; The World Atlas of Language Structures Online; Language and Location: A Map Annotation Project; Syntactic Structures of the World’s Languages; Merritt Ruhlen’s Interactive Maps; Language families; Linguistic maps from Muturzikin.com; Matthew Dryer’s Language Map collection (by language family)
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.
