Languages & Linguistics

Toronto’s Language Quilt
The greater Toronto area’s multicultural nature is vividly brought out by the Toronto Star’s extraordinary “language quilt” map (19.5 MB PDF), which shows the most dominant second language in a given census tract. (In 95 percent of the cases,… »
Posted on Sunday, January 6, 2008 at 9:53 AM
Categories: Languages & Linguistics, Toronto
Karelia
Languagehat has stumbled across a bilingual map of the Karelian Isthmus — the parcel of land northwest of St. Petersburg between the Gulf of Finland and Lake Ladoga that was annexed by the USSR during the Winter War of 1939-1940…. »
Posted on Monday, January 15, 2007 at 12:53 PM
Categories: Languages & Linguistics
MLA Language Map Updated
The MLA Language Map (last mentioned here in June 2004), which displays the number of speakers of a given language in the U.S. by county, has now been upgraded: for example, the system now displays language speakers as a percentage… »
Posted on Wednesday, April 19, 2006 at 10:26 AM
Categories: Languages & Linguistics
Huffman’s World Language Maps
Stephen Huffman’s World Language Phyla/Family Mapping page hosts a collection of very large PDFs that show language phyla at the global level and language families at the regional/continental level. The maps are really good, but if you use OS… »
Posted on Tuesday, March 28, 2006 at 7:53 AM
Categories: Languages & Linguistics
Atlas of North American English
Via MapHist, I found out about the University of Pennsylvania’s Telsur Project, which maps the variations in English dialect and pronunciation across North America, and is behind the (hella-expensive) Atlas of North American English. See previous entry: Atlas of Language… »
Posted on Friday, March 17, 2006 at 10:01 PM
Categories: Books, Languages & Linguistics
Atlas of Language Structures
The World Atlas of Language Structures, in preparation, “will show structural features of languages in much the same way as linguistic data are displayed in dialect atlases.” I’ve seen German dialect atlases that show how words change from place to… »
Posted on Saturday, August 6, 2005 at 5:17 PM
Categories: Languages & Linguistics
MLA Language Map
The MLA has put online a Java-based interactive map that shows where speakers of various languages are found in the United States. Lots of less commonly spoken languages, like Apache and Hindi; national, county and zip-code data is available. Via… »
Posted on Friday, June 18, 2004 at 9:19 PM
Categories: Languages & Linguistics

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