I recently had a colleague ask me about how to represent language areas for one language group alongside other languages spoken in the area. The observation was that many languages with a small number.. (more)

This is a blog post that I’ve had in mind for awhile, and as I was working on it I realized that there is a bit of groundwork needed. Part of that groundwork was laid in a previous post where I showed.. (more)

In a previous post I showed a simple way to control for language family and area with categorical variables in a linear mixed model using Python. In a more recent post I showed how we can plot languag.. (more)

When working with languages, it is important to keep in mind the context in which they exist. While “context” has many different facets, a primary aspect is geography. Geographical (and topographi.. (more)

When I began developing the taggedPBC I needed to represent all of the roughly 2,000 languages in a similar way, in order to facilitate comparison. As noted in a previous post, while the majority of.. (more)