LingTypology: Documentation

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 online linguistic databases. See more info below.

Citation

It would be most appreciated if you cite the package if you are using it. The suggested way is:

@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}
}

Contents

Tutorial

• Linguistic Interactive maps
  • 1. Maps
    • 1.1. Simplest example
    • 1.2. Save, Render or Save as Image
    • 1.3. Features
    • 1.4. Customizing the map
    • 1.5. Popups
    • 1.6. Accessing Glottolog
    • 1.7. Customizing features and controls
    • 1.8. Stroke features
    • 1.9. Heatmaps
    • 1.10. Title
    • 1.11. Lines
    • 1.12. Customizing markers
    • 1.13. Start Location/Zoom shortcuts
    • 1.14. Color gradients
    • 1.15. Minicharts
    • 1.16. Overlapping Features
    • 1.17. Using Existing Folium Map
    • 1.18. Merging Maps
    • 1.19. Using Different Tiles
    • 1.20. Using Elevation Data
  • 2. Some real examples
    • 2.1. Circassian Example
    • 2.2. Consonants Example
• Databases API
  • 1. General
    • 1.1. features_list
    • 1.2. get_df and get_json
    • 1.3. citation
  • 2. Wals
  • 3. Autotyp
  • 4. AfBo
  • 5. SAILS
  • 6. Phoible

Reference Manual

• lingtypology.maps
  • Intro
  • lingtypology.LingMap class
  • Functions
• lingtypology.datasets
  • Intro
  • Universal Attributes
  • Universal Methods
  • Classes
• lingtypology.glottolog
  • Functions
  • Versions

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page