15.3142, Software: World Language Mapping in GIS format

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LINGUIST List: Vol-15-3142. Tue Nov 09 2004. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.

Subject: 15.3142, Software: World Language Mapping in GIS format

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Date: 24-Sep-2004
From: Bill Dickson < bill at gmi.org >
Subject: World Language Mapping in GIS format


	
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Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2004 12:08:17
From: Bill Dickson < bill at gmi.org >
Subject: World Language Mapping in GIS format


The World Lanuguage Mapping System (WLMS), a set of worldwide language
homeland areas (polygons) and point locations for use in Geographic
Information Systems (GIS)is now generally available for the first time.
Dataset developed jointly by SIL and GMI maps all languages of the 14th
Edition Ethnologue, and includes substantially all of the data of the
published Ethnologue as a GIS attribute table. For information see

http://www.gmi.org/wlms



Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Applied Linguistics;
Computational Linguistics; Genetic Classification; Sociolinguistics




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