Summary of Responses to a query by Candace Luebbering to Linguist-List:
The LL MAP project ( ) which has links to
the original images and source information of the maps used in their work
MultiTree (
Ethnologue (
National Geographic's Enduring Voices project
(
UNESCO Interactive Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger
(
Interesting map showing the distribution of terms for carbonated drinks
(
Atlas linguistique de France from ca. 1900
Linguistic Atlas of New England
Maps in the Dictionary of American Regional English
Atlas of the World's Languages published by Routledge
First Peoples Heritage Language Culture Council, British Columbia -
fphlcc.ca -
World Atlas of Language Structures;
Korjakov, Ju. B. 2006. Atlas kavkazskikhjazykov s prilozheniempolnogo
reestrajazykov. Moskva: Piligrim (76 pgs.). for a great collection of
maps displaying the languages of the Caucasus
Basic map for Aboriginal language/dialect/tribal groups of Australia
(
Sutton, Peter. 1995. Country : Aboriginal boundaries and land ownership
In Australia. Canberra: Aboriginal History. This article has a good
discussion concerning the presentation and possible interpretations of a
different map of Aboriginal Australian
A. K. Ramanujan & Colin Masica's 'Towards a Phonological Typology of the
Indian Linguistic Area' in Current Trends in Linguistics Vol 5. The Hague
1969, pp. 543-577.
Recommendation to look at reference grammars such as Dixon 1972: The
Dyirbal language of North Queensland and he also mentioned Nichols 1998:
The Eurasian spread zone and the Indo-European dispersal (in Archaeology
and Language II
Nichols 1998: The Eurasian spread zone and the Indo-European dispersal (in
Archaeology and Language II)
SIL (Summer Institute of Linguistics
A set of maps covering the entire Amazon: Queixalós, Francisco, and Odile
Renault-Lescure, eds. 2000.As línguasamazônicashoje. São Paulo:
IRD/ISA/MPEG.
The Altas of the World's Languages (2nd ed.), Asher & Moseley (eds.). 2007.
MLA Language Map,
Mission organization web sites sometimes have maps that refer to people
groups but whose distinctions are actually based on language
(
Interesting application of maps in the study of folk linguistics can be
found in Niedzielski, Nancy -- Dennis Preston. 1999. Folk linguistics. Berlin:
Mouton de Gruyter.
Online source of maps at Wikimedia Commons
( Other language
maps available in other categories as well. & links to his own work
French language reference, L'Atlas des langues du monde by Breton and
Mazoyer
(
Consortium for Language Policy and Planning has a webpage (with work in
progress) with a number of ethnolinguistic maps at
Short, clear discussion about creation of first dialectological maps in
Chambers J. K. & Trudgill, P. Dialectology, CUP, Series: Cambridge
Textbooks in Linguistics, 2nd Ed.
Cree dialects @ and
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Candice Luebbering