[Lingtyp] Diversity/dispersion of descriptive/typological knowledge by language

[Sebastian Nordhoff]

Dear Jürgen,
maybe this is something for you: http://glammap.net/glottovis/about . 
The data should be freely available as well.
Best wishes
Sebastian

On 1/3/20 7:09 PM, Bohnemeyer, Juergen wrote:
> Dear all — I was wondering whether anybody has attempted to quantify the extent of linguistic diversity in our knowledge of the languages of the world. I believe mathematically speaking the type of information I’m looking for is a frequency distribution. The question is to what extent are a handful of languages and language families overrepresented in our knowledge of the languages of the world whereas the vast majority of languages and language families are underrepresented. One can ask this question (i) about our descriptive knowledge of any and all languages and (ii) specifically about the typological literature. I’m most interested in (ii), but I’m guessing there’s more likely to be an answer to (i) (though I also realize that the odds of anybody having proposed an answer to either question without me having heard of it are not great). Anybody aware of such a study? Even relevant claims without empirical footing would be of interest. — Best — Juergen
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