World Atlas of Language Structures
- World Atlas of Language Structures
The World Atlas of Language Structures is "a large database of structural (phonological, grammatical, lexical) properties of languages gathered from descriptive materials" [ [http://wals.info/index The World Atlas of Language Structures Online ] ] . It was first published by Oxford University Press as a book with CD rom in 2005, and was released as the second edition on the Internet in April 2008. It is maintained by the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and by the Max Planck Digital Library. The editors are Martin Haspelmath, Matthew S. Dryer, David Gil and Bernard Comrie [ [http://wals.info/index The World Atlas of Language Structures Online ] ] .
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 Google Maps. The information of the atlas is published under a Creative Commons license.
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