The Linguasphere Observatory is a language research network. It was created in France in 1983 and is currently based in Wales. They have devised an innovative scheme of philological classification, which includes a hierarchy of relationships based partly on percentages of lexical similarity between language's core vocabularies, and also an unusual system that zigzags between genetic and geographic categories (which they call phylozones and geozones, respectively). 1983 is an integer and composite number that represents a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... National motto: Cymru am byth (Welsh: Wales for ever) Waless location within the UK Official languages English and Welsh Capital Cardiff Largest city Cardiff First Minister Rhodri Morgan Area - Total Ranked 3rd UK 20,779 km² Population - Total (2001) - Density Ranked 3rd UK 2,903,085 140/km² NUTS... Philology is the study of ancient texts and languages. ... A lexicon is a list of words together with additional word-specific information, i. ...
In 1999, the Linguasphere published the Linguasphere Register of the World's Languages and Speech Communities, the second edition of which is due out in 2006. Since then, the Linguasphere's director, David Dalby, has been actively involved in a linguistic concatination project with the British Standards Institute (BSI). This project aims to provide alpha-4 code classification for every language in the world and thus standardise language coding in computer systems.
They have devised an innovative scheme of philological classification, which includes a hierarchy of relationships based partly on percentages of lexical similarity between language's core vocabularies, and also an unusual system that zigzags between genetic and geographic categories (which they call phylozones and geozones, respectively).
In 1999, the Linguasphere published the Linguasphere Register of the World's Languages and Speech Communities, the second edition of which is due out in 2006.
Since then, the Linguasphere's director, David Dalby, has been actively involved in a linguistic concatenation project with the British Standards Institute (BSI).
In July 2001, the BSI (British Standards Institution) requested the LinguasphereObservatory to make a firm proposal for the establishment of a standardised alphanumeric coding system covering all the world's languages, based on existing and future codes of ISO 639 and correlated with the referential framework and relationship scale of the Linguasphere Register.
Linguasphere Mapbase of the World's Languages and Speech Communities and is currently being extended into southern Europe and western Asia, in collaboration with the Languages of the World unit of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Akademia Nauk).
A more detailed proposal will be prepared by the LinguasphereObservatory for the beginning of 2002, including the orderly extension of identification codes to all spoken and written languages, and the examination of procedures for combining language codes with codes for countries and for scripts.
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