Timeline for Are there any databases of geographical language distribution?
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| Oct 22, 2011 at 12:37 | comment | added | Tilo Wiklund | I quite agree with LaurenG, but I still think this is a quite reasonable answer, and nobody seems to know of any more precise databases. | |
| Oct 22, 2011 at 12:36 | vote | accept | Tilo Wiklund | ||
| Oct 22, 2011 at 1:38 | comment | added | Gaston Ümlaut | @LaurenG Not sure I follow what you say about '...district, state or country', Ethnologue lists languages by country and gives fairly good 'region' info for each lang. | |
| Oct 22, 2011 at 1:09 | comment | added | LaurenG | Ethnologue is not particularly precise for where some languages are spoken, and trying to capture the difference between where a language is spoken and 'also spoken in' is not always clear. For example, that Mandarin is also spoken in the USA as well as China is probably not as important as the fact that English is 'also spoken in' the USA as well as the UK. Also, Ethnologue doesn't make clear if it's listing things by district, state or country. Still, it's the most compete source and should be relatively extractable. | |
| Oct 21, 2011 at 23:05 | history | answered | Gaston Ümlaut | CC BY-SA 3.0 |