# Bhasacitra: Visualising the dialect geography of South Asia

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.14082 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2105.14082/

## Key facts

- Cited by 4 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 1 of its 37 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 28 May 2021.

## Builds on (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [A probabilistic assessment of the Indo-Aryan Inner-Outer Hypothesis](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1912.01957/) (2019)

## Built on by (most cited first, 4 of 4)

- [Using Linguistic Typology to Enrich Multilingual Lexicons: the Case of Lexical Gaps in Kinship](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2204.05049/) (2022)
- [Language Diversity: Visible to Humans, Exploitable by Machines](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2203.04723/) (2022)
- [Lexical Diversity in Kinship Across Languages and Dialects](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2308.13056/) (2023)
- [For the Purpose of Curry: A UD Treebank for Ashokan Prakrit](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2111.12783/) (2021)

## Abstract (arXiv)

We present Bhasacitra, a dialect mapping system for South Asia built on a database of linguistic studies of languages of the region annotated for topic and location data. We analyse language coverage and look towards applications to typology by visualising example datasets. The application is not only meant to be useful for feature mapping, but also serves as a new kind of interactive bibliography for linguists of South Asian languages.