Abstract: GIS has been widely used in the humanities and social sciences, geospatial database is the basement of the languages of geographical information system, it combines geospatial data and language feature data through data management system, it provides visual scientific basis for linguistic research. This paper proposes the GIS uses for linguistics research, and with the help of the powerful spatiotemporal analysis function of GIS, we can dynamically demonstrate the spatial distribution of the sibe evolution in the languages of geographical information system, and provides empirical materials for sibe research.

Key words: GIS, linguistics, language feature map, spatiotemporal analysis, interdisciplinary research