Useful links for typologists



Help with identifying languages

Ethnologue (http://www.ethnologue.com/web.asp)

LinguistList (http://saussure.linguistlist.org/cfdocs/new-website/LL-WorkingDirs/forms/langs/find-a-language-or-family.cfm)


Language locations and general gazetteers

World Atlas of Linguistic Structures (http://linguistics.buffalo.edu/people/faculty/dryer/dryer/atlas.locations)

Geographical Names Database (http://gnpswww.nima.mil/geonames/GNS/index.jsp)

Global Gazetteer (http://www.calle.com/world/)


Maps

Cornell Geoscience Interactive Databases (http://atlas.geo.cornell.edu/webmap/)

AUTOTYP Map Tools (http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~autotyp/download)

Ljuba Veselinova's Linguistic Map Collection (http://bamse.ling.su.se/~ljuba/maps.shtml)


Genetic affiliation

AUTOTYP Searchable Genealogy Knowledgebase (http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/autotyp/browse.pl)

World Atlas of Linguistic Structures (http://wings.buffalo.edu/soc-sci/linguistics/people/faculty/dryer/dryer/genera)

Ethnologue (http://www.ethnologue.com/web.asp)

LinguistList (http://saussure.linguistlist.org/cfdocs/new-website/LL-WorkingDirs/forms/langs/find-a-language-or-family.cfm)