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Re: The World Atlas of Language Structures

From:taliesin the storyteller <taliesin-conlang@...>
Date:Saturday, April 26, 2008, 18:08
* MorphemeAddict@WMCONNECT.COM said on 2008-04-26 18:07:40 +0200
> In a message dated 4/26/2008 04:37:26 AM Central Daylight Time, > taliesin-conlang@NVG.ORG writes: > > > That said, it strikes me that describing how the various > > features work for our own conlangs might be fun, especially > > for mostly a priori creatures like mine... > > How would you map the conlangs?
Conlangs that are supposed to be on Earth would be mapped to Earth, those not of Earth would not be on a map. As for comparisons with natlangs, it should be possible to match up with the features of a natlang, get the natlang's coordinates and map that. WALS uses googlemap and KML and I see no reason not to use that myself. I was thinking I'd use Django as I'm using that at work anyway. There'd be a form to fill in for you guys, we could copy over the data from WALS also, to make direct comparisons. t.