The LL-MAP team is happy to announce the completion of the digital adaptation of the Linguistic Survey of India map collection. This important series of maps was a survey of the languages of British India, conducted in the first several decades of the 20th century by the British Raj and directed by Irish linguist George A. Grierson. The maps show the locations of dialects, languages, and language families in India, phonetic and morphological distribution, and language contact information. In our digitized versions, we have included the maximal language coding possible (i.e., if a name could refer to either a language or a subgroup, we include codes for both).
LL-MAP resources are freely available for public use. For information on how to use the LL-MAP interface, please visit the Online Help Section of the LL-MAP website or email the LL-MAP team at [email protected]
Many thanks to our former intern, Andrew Peters, who put in a substantial amount of time last summer getting these maps scanned, georegistered, vectorized, uploaded, and styled. Andrew designed this set of maps to be interoperable, so that the different language families can be easily distinguished when several maps are layered together in the LL-MAP interface. In the map credits, Andrew also identified several other sets of maps that may be of comparative interest.
The maps that make up this set include:
Linguistic Survey of India: Assamese Dialects
Linguistic Survey of India: Austro-Asiatic & Pronominalized Himalayan Languages
Linguistic Survey of India: Balochi Language
Linguistic Survey of India: Bara Languages and Dialects
Linguistic Survey of India: Bengali Dialects and Sub-Dialects
Linguistic Survey of India: Bhil Dialects and Khandesi
Linguistic Survey of India: Bihari Dialects and Sub-Dialects
Linguistic Survey of India: Central Pahari Languages and Dialects
Linguistic Survey of India: Dardic Influence
Linguistic Survey of India: Dardic Languages
Linguistic Survey of India: District of Sonthal Parganas
Linguistic Survey of India: Dravidian Languages
Linguistic Survey of India: Eastern Hindi Dialects and Sub-Dialects
Linguistic Survey of India: Ghalchah Languages
Linguistic Survey of India: Indo-Aryan Languages
Linguistic Survey of India: Kachin Dialects
Linguistic Survey of India: Kashmiri Language
Linguistic Survey of India: Lahnda or Western Panjabi Dialects and Sub-Dialects
Linguistic Survey of India: Languages in which L is the characteristic letter of the past participle
Linguistic Survey of India: Marathi Dialects
Linguistic Survey of India: Munda Languages and Dialects
Linguistic Survey of India: Naga Languages and Dialects
Linguistic Survey of India: Pashto and Ormuri Languages
Linguistic Survey of India: Punjabi Dialects and Sub-Dialects
Linguistic Survey of India: Rajasthani Dialects and Sub-Dialects
Linguistic Survey of India: Siamese-Chinese Languages
Linguistic Survey of India: Sindhi Language
Linguistic Survey of India: Tai Languages
Linguistic Survey of India: Tibeto-Burman Groups
Linguistic Survey of India: Western Hindi Dialects and Sub-Dialects
Linguistic Survey of India: Western Pahari Languages and Dialects