Languages areas of the world

Polygons delineating the linguistic homelands of most of the language-in-country entries in the Ethnologue, 15th edition

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DC_Title Languages areas of the world
DC_Creator_CorporateName World Language Mapping System (WLMS) Version 3.2
DC_Creator_CorporateName_Address http://www.gmi.org/wlms/
DC_Subject_Specific PARADISEC, Language, Endangered Cultures, Digital Archive, Recording, Pacific
DC_Description Polygons delineating the linguistic homelands of most of the language-in-country entries in the Ethnologue, 15th edition
DC_Source World Language Mapping System (WLMS) Version 3.2;Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (ed.), 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Fifteenth edition. Dallas, Tex.: SIL International
DC_Language eng
DC_Type Dataset
DC_Format TimeMap Dataset
DC_Publisher PARADISEC - Pacific And Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures
DC_Publisher_Address http://paradisec.org.au/
DC_Contributor_CorporateName Archaeological Computing Laboratory, University of Sydney
DC_Contributor_CorporateName_Address http://acl.arts.usyd.edu.au
DC_Contributor_PersonalName Andrew Wilson
DC_Coverage_X_min -179.999999
DC_Coverage_X_max 180
DC_Coverage_Y_min -55.287896
DC_Coverage_Y_max 75.997413
DC_Coverage_T_Early 2000-01-01T00:00:00
DC_Coverage_T_Late 2000-01-01T00:00:00
DC_Coverage_PeriodName Modern
DC_Coverage_PlaceName World
ECAI_Team Worldwide
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