The datasets for the atlas (as well as the accompanying pages) were mostly created by students of the School of Linguistics of NRU HSE Moscow, as part of a workshop. They collect data from available literature and work out an appropriate typological classification for the feature.
The data can be accessed through the interface of the atlas, or downloaded directly from the GitHub page.
Below is a specification of mandatory columns for each dataset. Note that a particular dataset may have additional columns.
Here is a full list of possible columns in a feature table:
id - unique number for each row / observation in dataset.
lang - language name following the naming conventions of the East Caucasian villages dataset.
idiom - a dialect, a village variety, or simply the standard language.
type - specifies whether the idiom is a village variety (village) or something else (idiom).
core - specifies whether to use a certain value for mapping.
feature - the name of the feature.
value - the relevant values of the feature, e.g. attested/not attested.
source - reference to the source on which the information is based.
page - relevant page in the source.
comment - any comment the contributor would like to add.
contributor - the contributor’s name.
If applicable:
form - a word form or an affix in case of grammatical features, a word in case of a lexical feature, graphemes for phonetic features.
example_as_in_source - an example of how the form is used.
example - example in Caucasiologist transcription with morpheme boundaries.
translation_as_in_source - translation of the example.
translation - the contributor’s English translation of the example.
gloss - glosses for the example.
example_source - reference to the source of the example.
example_page - page reference for the example.
example_comment - any comments on the example.
For map visualizations we use the Lingtypology (Moroz 2017) package for R.
Moroz, George. 2017. Lingtypology: Easy Mapping for Linguistic Typology. https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=lingtypology.
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