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Language Maps
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| Author: | Mari Broman Olsen | |
| Submitter Email: | click here to access email | |
| Linguistic LingField(s): |
Language Documentation
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| Summary: |
None exist...I had several responses: all queries like yours. The following was the most helpful. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The behavior of the major mapmakers (I can vouch only for Rand McNally, Hammond, and National Geographic, but the important European ones seem to agree--e.g. Bartholomew, Kummerley & Frey, Michelin, etc.) suggests that they believe there is ZERO market for such a product. I like to collect atlases (I try to get one representative of each time a major company changes its graphics--usually last year's model remaindered, so it's pretty cheap), and I have watched the language maps deteriorate over the last few decades. Nowadays, if you're lucky, there may be a map of official languages--quite useless! The only slightly decent language maps (and they didn't even include them for every continent) were in a now defunct atlas (I've forgotten the name) which in the early 70s came in two different sizes. But, to come to your question directly, the University of Chicago map library has a Soviet world language map that's fairly detailed, which you may be able to find at the LC if not at UMd; and in the 1950s one Albert Drexel (who seems to have been an unregenerate Nazi from Switzerland) published a superb language map, which was sold as both an insert in one of the volumes of his System einer Philosophie der Sprache and as the first (and only) fascicle of an ethnographic atlas. (I made a color Xerox of one of the Northwestern U copies, one of the last things I did before moving from Chicago to New York, but have never assembled the panels into the full display, because how would I use/display it?) In 1934 (I think it is) he published a superb language atlas (Atlas Linguisticum) which is unknown to the linguistics profession--Chicago has a copy and the New York Public Library has a copy catalogued (I haven't yet requested to see it there), but it's not in the National Union Catalog, nor is it in any bibliography of linguistics. (All this will be detailed in my review of the Routledge *Atlas of the World's Languages* for the journal *Word*. ... - Peter T. Daniels grammatim@worldnet.att.net |
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| LL Issue: | 9.1486 | |
| Date Posted: | 23-Oct-1998 | |
| Original Query: | Read original query | |
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