Here are some sample maps made in Lingtypology for R with the Daghestanian villages and languages dataset.
See the sample_maps.rmd file in the repository for the code used to draw these maps.
The color scheme on this map more or less reflects genetic affiliation in the East Caucasian family, based on the ordering in this family tree by Schulze (2009). Unrelated languages are shades of grey and white. Hover over a dot to see the language spoken in a particular village.
A lighter version of the previous colorscheme is also available. The idea is that you can use the lighter shades for all villages, and the brighter colors for villages that you have data for. Below is an example with general datapoints (i.e. one point for each traditionally recognized language and coordinates from the Glottolog database).
The altitude for each datapoint was retrieved automatically from Google, as were the coordinates for each village. These coordinates are not always precisely in the centre of the village, and as a result, the altitude data contains some inaccuracies. The highest village in this dataset, for example, is the village Asha (Tsumadinsky district), while we know that the highest village in Daghestan is actually Kurush (Dokuzparinsky district).
The northern part of Dagestan was uninhabited until relatively recently. It is composed of an ethnic and linguistic mish-mash of resettlers. We have little to zero information about the language varieties spoken here, and due to their recent migration we cannot extend the areal patterns from the general region to this particular are. Therefore, we created a parameter with the label kutans (which refers to this type of resettler villages), which gives us the ability to filter out this type of villages.
