<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">The 24 Autotyp areas aren’t comparable to macroareas. Those are comparable to the 10 Autotyp continents. <div><br></div><div>Johanna</div><div><br><br><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Dec 12, 2022, at 10:12 AM, David Gil <gil@shh.mpg.de> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">
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EN-GB">Glottolog partitions the world into 6 macro-areas, while
Autotyp divides
it up into 24.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>I am
wondering whether
there are any other well-motivated worldwide partitions that
have been
proposed in the linguistic or anthropological literature.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>I am particularly
interested in finer
partitions, something in the ballpark of 50 areas.</span></p>
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David Gil
Senior Scientist (Associate)
Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Deutscher Platz 6, Leipzig, 04103, Germany
Email: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:gil@shh.mpg.de">gil@shh.mpg.de</a>
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