Language Map Server
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چکیده
According to current estimates, there are approximately 7000 languages spoken around the globe. However, the location of most them is known by specialists only, if at all. GIS tools are slowly becoming familiar to linguists, but an easily accessible language mapping system still does not exist. The Department of Linguistics at Stockholm University is using ArcIMS for the development of a Language Map Server to be demonstrated at the 25 ESRI User Conference. Caucasus is the area chosen to be mapped first because of the great variety of languages spoken there and the availability of sufficient sources about them. We are targeting the smaller languages of the region because their location(s) and dialectal variants tend be least known. Pending funding and through cooperation with other universities, we plan to expand the system to cover other areas, the long term goal being to achieve global coverage of the geographic distribution of modern languages.
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