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Re: The World Atlas of Language Structures

From:John Vertical <johnvertical@...>
Date:Monday, April 28, 2008, 10:39
>* Paul Bennett said on 2008-04-26 04:52:13 +0200 >> The World Atlas of Language Structures is now available for free online, >> in a nifty Google Maps powered form. >> >> http://www.wals.info/ > >Having explored a little, all I can say is *drool*.
Emphatically seconded! This would make greit reference material for LCKs & the like. ...Altho alike to the Spanish issue, I'm also spotting other little weirdities, like including /T D/ in Dahalo but *not* in Arabic... OK, they use Egyptian Arabic so it's technically correct, but seems a bit misleading.
>t., adding "conlang wals" to list of impossible projects
Preliminary phoneme inventory statistics are alreddy being done at the ZBB. John Vertical

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