Linguistics: Find Language Atlases
Atlases / Maps
- The World Atlas of Language Structures OnlineAn atlas that provides structural (phonological, grammatical, lexical) properties of languages gathered from descriptive materials (such as reference grammars).
- Ethnologue
Ethnologue brings together data for more than 7,000 languages world-wide, and features various data from populations to maps, dialects, usage, and more.
- The Modern Language Association Language Map of the United States"Uses aggregated data from the 2006–10 American Community Survey (ACS) to display locations and numbers of speakers of thirty languages commonly spoken in the United States."
Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger of Disappearing by This new edition includes: (1) an introduction detailing developments in the study of endangered languages since 1996; (2) a description of the phenomenon of language endangerment and the death of languages; (3) a short report on efforts to describe and record endangered languages; (4) a detailed overview of language endangerment and death in all parts of the world; (5) a section of maps.
- Native LandNative Land is an app to help map Indigenous territories, treaties, and languages. You can use it directly above by entering your address, or by mousing or clicking around on the map to see the relevant territories in a location.
Once you click, a number of links will appear with different nation names. By clicking on those links, you will be taken to a page specifically about that nation, language, or treaty.
