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Area of Science:

  • Digital Linguistics
  • Geospatial Data Analysis
  • Computational Social Science

Background:

  • Lack of comprehensive geographical language distribution databases hinders linguistic spatiality studies and public outreach.
  • Existing language distribution data is often fragmented, presented in non-digital formats like printed maps or text.
  • Digitizing and harmonizing this data is crucial for advanced spatial analysis and understanding language diversity.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To establish best practices for creating and sharing digital spatial language data.
  • To compile and harmonize geospatial data for Uralic language distributions as a case study.
  • To make extensive, harmonized linguistic distribution datasets and visualizations freely accessible.

Main Methods:

  • Collecting and harmonizing existing linguistic distribution data.
  • Digitizing information into geospatial data with location, time, and other parameters.
  • Collaborating with language experts to refine distribution data and create state-of-the-art maps.

Main Results:

  • Development of best practices for digital spatial language data creation and sharing.
  • Compilation of a comprehensive, harmonized geospatial database of Uralic language distributions.
  • Creation of detailed map visualizations of Uralic language distributions.

Conclusions:

  • The presented methodology provides a framework for building digital spatial language databases.
  • Freely available Uralic language distribution data facilitates further research on language spatiality and diversity.
  • Digital spatial data enhances the study of linguistic changes and their correlation with other factors.