Founding Partners

An outstanding group of international collaborators have already committed themselves to furnish data to the project. These include:

ANLC

(Alaska Native Language Center) will allow LL-MAP to access all its geographic language data. Its archive includes over 200 topographic maps of Alaska which contain isogloss information for the Athabascan and Eskimo language families.
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig will furnish information from 2 projects (1) the World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS), which has mapped cross-linguistic structural variation across more than 200 languages and includes an extensive database of geographical coordinates and (2) the Loanword Typology project, which will investigate patterns of lexical borrowing and will generate another extensive database of relevant geospatial information.

PARADISEC

(Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures) will contribute language materials from the Pacific region, defined broadly to include Oceania and East and Southeast Asia. They have considerable textual data which is especially relevant to this project.

THDL

(Tibetan and Himalayan Digital Library Project ) will provide extensive data on the languages and dialects of Tibet, as well as georeferenced cultural and environmental data. It will also function as a service provider, integrating existing map services into the LL-MAP system.

University of Stockholm

has extensive experience in applying GIS technology to linguistic data through the Swedish National Atlas project. Oesten Dahl and his collaborators will furnish SNA and data from his new GIS project mapping the languages of the Caucasus.