WALS

WALS (World Atlas of Language Structures) is a comprehensive database that documents and compares various features of languages around the world. It gathers data on aspects like sounds, grammar, vocabulary, and writing systems, allowing linguists to analyze patterns, similarities, and differences among languages. WALS helps researchers understand language diversity, historical relationships, and how languages evolve or influence each other. It serves as a valuable resource for linguistics, language preservation, and study of human language in general, enabling informed insights into the structure and distribution of the world’s languages.