Discuss WALS Datapoint Fongbe / Occurrence of Nominal Plurality.

Discuss WALS Datapoint Yupik (Siberian) / Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives.

Discuss WALS Datapoint Bandjalang (Yugumbir) / Vowel Quality Inventories.

Discuss WALS Datapoint Tamil / Sex-based and Non-sex-based Gender Systems.

Discuss WALS Datapoint Anywa / Prefixing vs. Suffixing in Inflectional Morphology.

Discuss WALS Datapoint Zazaki / Order of Adjective and Noun.

What’s new?

• Updated data;
• better integration of sources;
• the web application is now based on the clld framework developed within the CLLD project.

What’s gone?

Probably the biggest feature no longer available in WALS Online is the functionality to combine two features on a map. The new framework WALS is built upon has a more general database model, in particular it allows for multiple values a language can have for the same feature. With this model, feature combinations are not as straight forward as was the case before.

But being implemented on top of clld does also mean that it’s a lot easier to access WALS data programmatically. So you can use map making software like Tilemill to combine data from multiple features (not only from WALS) on one map as explained here.

Discuss WALS Datapoint for feature 18A and language wals_code_ond.

Discuss WALS Datapoint Chamorro / Overlap between Situational and Epistemic Modal Marking.

Discuss WALS Datapoint for feature 2 and language wals_code_amp.