The Language Cooker

Substantial postings about constructed languages and constructed worlds in general. Good place to mention your own or evaluate someone else's. Put quick questions in C&C Quickies instead.
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The Language Cooker

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Siva Kalyan has just written a program that randomly generates a typologically-plausible set of morphosyntactic features for a language. You can generate in a way that is typologically-representative, globally-representative (these are not the same things!), or representative of a particular language family, “macro-area” (~ continent), or country.

You can find the Language Cooker here: https://www.getdatajoy.com/project/5766 ... 7577383711.
Go to the README file for instructions.

The Language Cooker takes its name from the Type Cooker (http://typecooker.com), a website that randomly generates a description of a typeface (or type family), which is then meant to be used as a design exercise by a student of typeface design. Likewise, the Language Cooker could be used to generate exercises for students of language design, i.e. glossopoets.

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Re: The Language Cooker

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This is neat. Is this in R, Rust, or some other language?

I also notice almost all the features return either 1 or 0, which I assume to be a yes or no, but some return a 2. Is this a mistake or what do the numbers mean?

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