Hey everyone,
Ken here with another fun fact for our 2018 Fund Drive campaign. Did you know that LINGUIST List maintains a number of different projects in addition to our listserv, website and social media announcements? We host and maintain projects like Multitree, LL-Map and Qenaga. Today, I’m going to be talking about Multitree.
Multitree is a searchable database of proposed language family trees. Multitree was created by going through hundreds of books and recording the proposed genetic relationships in those books. When you search a language or language family, like Niger-Congo, you get an interactive map where you can expand nodes to dive further down a branch of the tree. You can also view a citation for where this tree was taken from.
Multitree is a valuable resource for linguists like you and a fun, interactive way to introduce students to language family trees. It facilitates interdisciplinary collaboration with linguists to reach more accurate conclusions about human language, culture, and history.
For more information on Multitree visit http://new.multitree.org/about and for information on how to navigate Multitree and some of the advanced functionality visit http://new.multitree.org/help.
If you appreciate services like Multitree that we continue to maintain and support, please donate to our 2018 Funddrive campaign (https://funddrive.linguistlist.org).
