Language Module

This is one of the more exciting new sites I’ve seen on the web in quite some time. It’s called WALS Online - for “World Atlas of Linguistic Structures,” and it’s a map database of language-by-characteristic-features. From the homepage:

WALS consists of 141 maps with accompanying texts on diverse features (such as vowel inventory [...]

Greetings. My name is Joshua Herring, and I’m a PhD student in Computational Linguistics at Indiana University. Not that you’d know it by the blog I’ve been keeping for the past two years. That thing is mostly about politics - which was really, honestly, was never the intention, but there you have [...]