% pubman genre = article @article{item_3258825, title = {{Simultaneous visualization of language endangerment and language description}}, author = {Hammarstr{\"o}m, Harald and Castermans, Thom and Forkel, Robert and Verbeek, Kevin and Westenberg, Michel A. and Speckmann, Bettina}, language = {eng}, issn = {1934-5275}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10125/24792}, publisher = {University of Hawaii Press}, address = {Hawaii}, year = {2018}, abstract = {{The world harbors a diversity of some 6,500 mutually unintelligible languages.As has been increasingly observed by linguists, many minority languages are be-coming endangered and will be lost forever if not documented. Urgently indeed,many efforts are being launched to document and describe languages. This under-taking naturally has the priority toward the most endangered and least describedlanguages. For the first time, we combine world-wide databases on language de-scription (Glottolog) and language endangerment (ElCat, Ethnologue, UNESCO)and provide two online interfaces, GlottoScope and GlottoVis, to visualize thesetogether. The interfaces are capable of browsing, filtering, zooming, basic statis-tics, and different ways of combining the two measures on a world map back-ground. GlottoVis provides advanced techniques for combining cluttered dotson a map. With the tools and databases described we seek to increase the overallknowledge of the actual state language endangerment and description worldwide}}, journal = {{Language Documentation {\&} Conservation}}, volume = {12}, pages = {359--392}, }