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Tue Nov 09 2004

Software: World Language Mapping in GIS format

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Message 1: World Language Mapping in GIS format

Date: 24-Sep-2004
From: Bill Dickson <bill

gmi.org>
Subject: World Language Mapping in GIS format

The World Lanuguage Mapping System (WLMS), a set of worldwide language
homeland areas (polygons) and point locations for use in Geographic
Information Systems (GIS)is now generally available for the first time.
Dataset developed jointly by SIL and GMI maps all languages of the 14th
Edition Ethnologue, and includes substantially all of the data of the
published Ethnologue as a GIS attribute table. For information see

http://www.gmi.org/wlms

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Applied Linguistics;
Computational Linguistics; Genetic Classification; Sociolinguistics
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