lingtypology1.1.24 package

Linguistic Typology and Mapping

abvd.feature

Download ABVD data

afbo.feature

Download AfBo data

aff.lang

Get affiliation by language

area.lang

Get macro area by language

atlas.database

Create an atlas

autotyp.feature

Download AUTOTYP data

bantu.feature

Download BANTU data

bivaltyp.feature

Download BivalTyp data

country.lang

Get country by language

eurasianphonology.feature

Opens data from the database of Eurasian phonological inventories

frequency_list.feature

Download frequency list

gltc.iso

Get Glottocode by ISO 639--3 code

gltc.lang

Get Glottocode by language

grambank.feature

Download Grambank data

imports

Objects imported from other packages

is.glottolog

Are these languages in glottolog?

iso.gltc

Get ISO 639--3 code by Glottocode

iso.lang

Get ISO 639--3 code by language

iso3.iso1

Get ISO 639-3 code from ISO 639-1

lang.aff

Get languages by affiliation

lang.country

Get language by country

lang.gltc

Get language by Glottocode

lang.iso

Get language by ISO 639--3 code

lat.lang

Get latitude by language

level.lang

Get a level of language by language

long.lang

Get longitude by language

map.feature

Create a map

oto_mangueanIC.feature

Download Oto-Manguean Inflectional Class Database data

phoible.feature

Download PHOIBLE data

polygon.points_fd

Get polygons from fixed distance circles around coordinates

polygon.points_kde

Get kernel density estimation poligon from coordinates

sails.feature

Download SAILS data

soundcomparisons.feature

Download SOUNDCOMPARISONS data

subc.lang

Get subclassification by language

uralex.feature

Download UraLex data

url.lang

Make a url-link to glottolog page for a language

valpal.feature

Download ValPaL data

vanuatu.feature

Download Vanuatu Voices data

wals.feature

Download WALS data

Provides R with the Glottolog database <https://glottolog.org/> and some more abilities for purposes of linguistic mapping. The Glottolog database contains the catalogue of languages of the world. This package helps researchers to make a linguistic maps, using philosophy of the Cross-Linguistic Linked Data project <https://clld.org/>, which allows for while at the same time facilitating uniform access to the data across publications. A tutorial for this package is available on GitHub pages <https://docs.ropensci.org/lingtypology/> and package vignette. Maps created by this package can be used both for the investigation and linguistic teaching. In addition, package provides an ability to download data from typological databases such as WALS, AUTOTYP and some others and to create your own database website.

  • Maintainer: George Moroz
  • License: GPL (>= 2)
  • Last published: 2025-09-28