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Lingtypology is a Python3 tool for linguistic interactive mapping and online linguistic databases API. It is inspired by R-package created by Agrizolamz. It uses the same phylosophy and provides similar functionality.

Installation

The package is available in PyPI. Therefore, you can install it by running:
Locally: pip3 install lingtypology --user
Globally (not recommended): sudo pip3 install lingtypology

Usage

Lingtypology package contains LingMap class that allows to draw interactive maps, glottolog library that allows to interact with Glottolog data and datasets that allows to interact with different other linguistic databases.
For more informations consult Lingtypology: Documentation.

Glottolog

Lingtypology relies on data from the Glottolog database. With each new version of lingtypology Glottolog data is updated. Now it is using Glottolog 3.4-41. You can update data from Glottolog. To get the instruction on how to do it, consult the tutorial.

Citation

If you are using this package in a scientific publication, it will be most appreciated if you add the citation:

@misc{MichaelVoronov2669068,
    author = {Michael Voronov},
    title = {{lingtypology: a Python tool for linguistic typology}},
    month = june,
    year = 2019,
    doi = {10.5281/zenodo.2669068},
    url = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2669068}
}