World Atlas of Language Structures

[1] It was first published by Oxford University Press as a book with CD-ROM in 2005, and was released as the second edition on the Internet in April 2008.

The editors are Martin Haspelmath, Matthew S. Dryer, David Gil and Bernard Comrie.

[1] The atlas provides information on the location, linguistic affiliation and basic typological features of a great number of the world's languages.

The information of the atlas is published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.

It is part of the Cross-Linguistic Linked Data project hosted by the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.