%0 Journal Article
%A Hammarström, Harald
%A Castermans, Thom
%A Forkel, Robert
%A Verbeek, Kevin
%A Westenberg, Michel A.
%A Speckmann, Bettina
%+ External Organizations
Linguistic and Cultural Evolution, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Max Planck Society
%T Simultaneous visualization of language endangerment and language description : 
%G eng
%U https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0007-935B-D
%F OTHER: shh1076
%U http://hdl.handle.net/10125/24792
%7 2018-09
%D 2018
%* Review method: peer-reviewed
%X 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
%J Language Documentation & Conservation

%V 12
%& 359
%P 359 - 392
%I University of Hawaii Press
%C Hawaii
%@ 1934-5275