World Atlas of Language Structures

The full WALS dataset.

Format

A data frame of 76465 rows (each row representing one language-feature combination) and 20 variables:

combined_ID

Identifier combining feature_ID and language_ID; identifies a unique row in the data frame

feature_ID

Feature ID

feature

Feature name

value_ID

Value ID

value

Value name

code_ID

Identifier combining feature_ID and value_ID

language_ID

Language ID

iso_code

Language's ISO code

glottocode

Language's Glottolog code

language

Language name

family

Language's family

genus

Language's genus

macroarea

Language's macroarea

countrycodes

Country codes associated with language

latitude

Language's latitude in degrees

longitude

Language's longitude in degrees

in_WALS_100

Boolean: TRUE if language belongs to the WALS 100-language sample

in_WALS_200

Boolean: TRUE if language belongs to the WALS 200-language sample

source

Information source for this language-feature combination

contributors

WALS contributors for this language-feature combination