The notion of cultural aspects of language variation and change is a growing field. However
collective works on the current stance within this domain are still scarce. The Mouton Atlas of
Languages and Cultures embraces a substantial part of the Eurasian continent and equips the
reader to better observe reconstruct and understand the impact of culture and cultural changes
on language diversity and linguistic developments. Along the way a fascinating range of
interdisciplinary issues from database encoding conventions to etymologies and cultural
anthropology are discussed. Based on an extensive database assembled by Gerd Carling and her
team in Lund Sweden the atlas presents typological and lexical data of more than 200 ancient
and modern languages many encoded for the very first time. Alongside classic maps the atlas
features new visualizations such as polygons and network diagrams which smartly illustrate
complex linguistic patterns of borrowability co-lexification and semantic evolution and
thereby provide entirely new perspectives. In collaboration with Acherdan Abregov Elnur Aliyev
Leila Avidzba Chundra Cathcart Merab Chukhua Sandra Cronhamn Robert Farren Johan Frid
Anne Goergens Josine Greidanus Teimuraz Gvantseladze Harald Hammarström Arthur Holmer
Niklas Johansson Madzhid Khalilov Edin Kuckovic Filip Larsson Tamar Lomadze Mikael Novén
Ante Petrovic Erich Round Revaz Tchantouria Maka Tetradze Larisa Tuptsokova Karina Vamling
Briana Van Epps Rob Verhoeven Ola Wikander Astrid Zimmermann. DiACL - Diachronic Atlas of
Comparative Linguistics https: snd.gu.se en catalogue study ext0269 https: diacl.ht.lu.se
