The project Digital Language Typology (DLT) is part of the Finnish Academy Digital Humanities programme, which includes "novel methods and techniques in which digital technologies and state-of-the-art computational science methods are used for collecting, managing, and analysing data in humanities and social sciences research." Please see http://www.aka.fi/digihum for more details.
Summary:
Digital language typology (DLT) is a multi-disciplinary project intending to produce a computer-based platform that will be able to
assess the structurally manifested family relationships within any set of languages with appropriate large digital textual and speech
material. To this end, we have collected a group of specialists from phonetics, linguistics, and computer science. The project focuses
on comparing several Uralic languages with (Indo-European) languages that are most relevant to their evolution in terms of
geographical distribution and history of language contact. In addition to relatively well studied Finnish, Hungarian and Estonian, we
will include three much less resourced Samoyedic languages, namely Tundra and Forest Nenets and Nganasan, with distinct
phylogenetic history. As such the project will provide the research community with new tools and shed new light on the linguistic
history of mankind and advance the new field of Digital Humanities.