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Already when it was published as a book in 2005, The World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS) represented a giant step forward in scientists' access to information on the diversity of human languages. On 142 maps displaying on average 400 languages from all over the world, it shows the geographical distribution of the most important patterns of sounds, word structure and sentence structure.

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