The Areal Typology of Languages of the Americas (ATLAs) database

David Inman; Natalia Chousou-Polydouri; Marine Vuillermet; Kellen Parker van Dam; Shelece Easterday; Françoise Rose; Alena Witzlack-Makarevich; Kevin Baetscher; Oscar Cocaud-Degrève; Anna Graff; Selma Hardegger; Thomas C. Huber; Tai Hong; Diana Krasovskaya; Raphaël Luffroy; Nora Josefina Muheim; André Müller; Alexandra Nogina; David Thimothy Perrot; Melvin Steiger; Balthasar Bickel

doi:10.1038/s41597-025-05169-4

The Areal Typology of Languages of the Americas (ATLAs) database

David Inman, Natalia Chousou-Polydouri, Marine Vuillermet, Kellen Parker van Dam, Shelece Easterday, Françoise Rose, Alena Witzlack-Makarevich, Kevin Baetscher, Oscar Cocaud-Degrève, Anna Graff, Selma Hardegger, Thomas C. Huber, Tai Hong, Diana Krasovskaya, Raphaël Luffroy, Nora Josefina Muheim, André Müller, Alexandra Nogina, David Thimothy Perrot, Melvin SteigerBalthasar Bickel

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Abstract

The Areal Typology of Languages of the Americas (ATLAs) database encodes 265 linguistic features from 17 different featural domains across 220 North and South American languages and 105 languages in the rest of the world. The domains covered in the database were chosen for their regional relevance, and languages were selected on principles of both phylogenetic diversity and geographic coverage. The features of ATLAs are designed to be logically independent, maximizing the reusability of the data for analytical tools which assume logical independence.

Original language	English
Article number	933
Journal	Scientific data
Volume	12
Issue number	1
Number of pages	11
ISSN	2052-4463
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-05169-4
Publication status	Published - 3 Jun 2025
Externally published	Yes
MoE publication type	A1 Journal article-refereed

Fields of Science

6121 Languages

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Inman, D., Chousou-Polydouri, N., Vuillermet, M., van Dam, K. P., Easterday, S., Rose, F., Witzlack-Makarevich, A., Baetscher, K., Cocaud-Degrève, O., Graff, A., Hardegger, S., Huber, T. C., Hong, T., Krasovskaya, D., Luffroy, R., Muheim, N. J., Müller, A., Nogina, A., Perrot, D. T., ... Bickel, B. (2025). The Areal Typology of Languages of the Americas (ATLAs) database. Scientific data , 12(1), Article 933. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-05169-4

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