Glottography dataset derived from Rantanen et al. 2021 "Geographical database of the Uralic languages"

How to cite

If you use these data please cite

• the original source

  Rantanen, T., Vesakoski, O., Ylikoski, J., & Tolvanen, H. (2021). Geographical database of the Uralic languages (v1.0) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4784188

• the derived dataset using the DOI of the particular released version you were using

Description

This dataset is licensed under a CC-BY-4.0 license

Coverage

{"type": "Feature", "geometry": {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": [[[9.5, 52.1], [9.5, 75.7], [113.5, 75.7], [113.5, 52.1], [9.5, 52.1]]]}, "properties": {}}

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Attribution

When you use the datasets or maps, please also cite to the following paper introducing the whole of process from data collection, harmonization and visualization until releasing the data:

Rantanen, T., Tolvanen, H., Roose, M., Ylikoski, J. & Vesakoski, O. (2022) “Best practices for spatial language data harmonization, sharing and map creation - A case study of Uralic” PLoS ONE 17(6): e0269648. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0269648.

Data selection

This dataset only contains a subset of the language distributions from the source dataset - namely the features from the "traditional" shapefiles in the Geospatial datasets/Language distributions/Expert distributions/Languages/ directory.

Focal year

The year column in ContributionTable has a value of "traditional" for all features of this dataset. The source dataset describes this "traditional" epoch as follows:

at the beginning of the 20th century – indicating approximately the widest known distribution of the Uralic languages

Some exceptions are described:

For Mator and Kamas, which became extinct in the 19th and 20th centuries, respectively (Dolgix 1960), the “traditional distribution” refers to the beginning of the 19th century.

CLDF Datasets

The following CLDF datasets are available in cldf:

• CLDF Generic at cldf/Generic-metadata.json