WALS Language Metadata

Returns information about a WALS language.

language_metadata(id)

Arguments

id	Language's WALS ID, or a vector of IDs

Value

A dataframe with the following columns:

language_ID

Language's WALS ID

iso_code

Language's ISO code

glottocode

Language's Glottocode

language

Language's name

latitude

Language's latitude

longitude

Language's longitude

genus

Language's genus

family

Language's family

macroarea

Language's macroarea

countrycodes

Country codes associated with the language

in_WALS_100

Boolean flag: TRUE if language is included in the WALS 100 sample

in_WALS_200

Boolean flag: TRUE if language is included in the WALS 200 sample

Examples

language_metadata("fin")
#>     language_ID iso_code glottocode language family  genus macroarea
#> 677         fin      fin   finn1318  Finnish Uralic Finnic   Eurasia
#>     countrycodes latitude longitude in_WALS_100 in_WALS_200
#> 677           FI       62        25        TRUE        TRUE
language_metadata("fin")$family
#> [1] Uralic
#> Levels: Uralic
language_metadata(c("fin", "swe"))
#>      language_ID iso_code glottocode language        family    genus macroarea
#> 677          fin      fin   finn1318  Finnish        Uralic   Finnic   Eurasia
#> 2203         swe      swe   swed1254  Swedish Indo-European Germanic   Eurasia
#>      countrycodes latitude longitude in_WALS_100 in_WALS_200
#> 677            FI       62        25        TRUE        TRUE
#> 2203        SE FI       60        15       FALSE       FALSE