The Interactive ALR



Cognate Search

    Type in an English word or phrase to search through the ALR database for native equivalents in a range of languages. This feature will even return related phrases and sentences which contain a single search word: so a search for "man" will also find "old man", "white man", etc.

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Interactive Linguistic Atlas           Under Construction

    Instantly view the geographical distribution of native terms from the ALR database.
    Enter in a search term, and the Interactive Atlas will scan the vocabularies and automatically plot the results on a map of the Eastern seaboard. Only vocabularies collected on or near ancestral tribal lands are included here: they are listed on our Atlas master key.
    Note that the Atlas only finds exact matches; a search for "man" will only find "man" and not "old man", "white man" etc.

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Linguistic Timeline                Under Construction

    Select a language, then enter an English word to see how it was variously recorded throughout the language's history.


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