Re: The World Atlas of Language Structures

* 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*. I wanted the
book-version of this but for one, it's expensive and for the other, it
is a very large book and I've already run out of empty bookshelves and
will soon be out of walls to cover with bookshelves :)

Because of its hypertext nature this online version is actually better
for research than the paper version.

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... This makes it possible/easier to discover which
natural language a conlang resembles most, complete with a map-reference
in case we'd want to borrow from the geographical neighbors.

Again, *drool*


t., adding "conlang wals" to list of impossible projects