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This month we present you with a bunch of online linguistics databases to help get an idea of what possibilities there are for languages.
Top of Show Greeting: Maruħani
Links and Resources:
- WALS (general typology)
- APiCS (pidgin and creole typology)
- eWAVE (English dialects and English-based creoles)
- SSWL (syntactic typology)
- PBase (common phonological rules)
- PHOIBLE (phonological inventories)
- SAPhon (phonological inventories of South American languages)
- World Phonotactics Database
- A Survey of Some Vowel Systems
- A guide to small consonant inventories
- Index Diachronica (historical sound changes)
- ValPal (valency patterns)
- CLICS (polysemy)
- STEDT (polysemy in Sino-Tibetan languages)
- DatSemShifts (polysemy and semantic shifts)
Pete Bleackley
What was that South American language you mentioned with the strange phonology?
admin
Karajá: http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/~saphon/en/inv/Karaja.html
Pete Bleackley
Not so much ANADEW as “If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.”
wm.annis
Literally days after we did this episode I ran across another interesting database, The Concepticon. It’s a collection of many kinds of ‘Swadesh’ lists. If you sort the “Concept Sets” by clicking on the “Representation” column twice, you see which words most often end up in these sorts of lists.
Bilal Hussain
There’s also panlex for word comparison across languages
https://db.panlex.org
https://panlex.org
They also generate 110 and 207 swadesh lists. Interesting thing: it contains conlangs too not just natlang.
Transliteration support can be provided via http://site.icu-project.org to facilitate a top down approach to morphology and phonology selection.