Level 2:	Setting of the language
	Language name	Ethnographic setting	Genealogical setting	Cultural setting	Social setting	Typological overview

Language name

• autonym
• exonyms

Ethnographic setting

• geographic distribution
• ethnic affiliation of speech community
• organization of society: social, economic, political, spiritual, cultural

Genealogical setting

• internal: dialects
• external: genetic affiliation

Cultural setting

• external history
• literacy
• (oral) literature: traditional text genres

Social setting

• internal: sociolects
• external: language contact, vitality

Typological overview

• phonology
• morphology
• syntax: head vs. dependent marking, alignment, word order ...

This section puts the language in its typological context,
but also provides a summary introduction to the language system.