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Map showing native languages of Europe. Updated version of this map. (1blomma.deviantart.com/art/Lin… )In countries with bilingual municipalities, those are shown even if the number of native speakers of a certain minority language is very low. All political borders shown are de jure. In areas where data was difficult to gather estimates have been made.
The goal of this map is to have it be as accurate as possible, so if you see anything you believe is an error made, feel free to post here.
Updated on 17/1 2018.
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Thanks! It is one of the best language maps in the internet! But, can you make Belarus more detailed uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/М&… ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Я&…
And to my opinion russian is mare widely spoken in Ukraine. And also Ukraine has big polish diaspora. pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polacy_n… uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/П&…
And to my opinion North Kazakhstan is much more Russian speaking en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazakhst… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russians…
Ok, thank you a lot for your work!
Best regards,
Sergey.
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Hi, I'm a wikipedia administrator. I really love your map of languages in Europe. Would you be willing to upload it to wikimedia commons/ give it creative commons rights? We could use this on several articles.
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Your maps are absolutely exquisite. The detail and time you must put into making a single map I can only guess takes days to complete. With this in mind, What would i have to do to get this map that i made made in your style (Im willing to pay)?
I am open to you changing the borders if you would like to such as the Batum, Kars, and Erivan provinces being messed up or you just changing borders massively in an area overall.
If you do change the borders significantly i would like a couple things to be included:
-Russia owning Constantinople
- Some kind of partition of Mongolia between Russia and China
Honestly if you take up my offer on making the map i've provided, I'm willing to accept major shifts in the borders; I trust your creative mind when it comes to border art.
[A higher res photo is on my Deviant page]
Second Warsaw Pact and Greater Russia
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Don't do the Ethnic groups thing, There will be a war in the comment section lol.
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Great map. Tabasaran is spelled like that though, not Tabarasan.
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The map is amazing!
I just want to add a comment on Poles in Lithuania and Belarus. I don't know what sources you used, but I myself being Lithuanian was able to access some native sources that cover this topic. Leaving the historical circumstances aside, most Poles in Belarus, as you mentioned before, speak Belarusian language, rather than Polish. According to your map, in Lithuania all Poles speak Polish, which is only half-true. Lithuanian and Belarusian Poles belong to the same ethnic group, whose territory is divided between Lithuania and Belarus (the formation of this group is another story). As in Belarus, most Poles in Lithuania also speak a dialect of Belarusian, the same one as in Belarus. There are two sources for that:
firstly, most natives from Poland who visit Lithuania, say that they can hardly communicate with local Poles;
secondly, in 1990 one of the most famous Lithuanian cartographers and ethnologists, dr. Petras Gaučas, made a thorough research of Eastern Lithuania's linguistic and ethnic situation, which revealed, that in fact, most Lithuanian Poles spoke Belarusian. In their book 'Lietuvos Rytai' they presented a map that I include.
Here pink represents a local dialect of Belarusian that Poles in both Lithuania and Belarus speak (called 'po prostu'). Yellow is the real Polish language area while green is Lithuanian language area. Both non-Lithuanian language areas have shrunk since 1990 because of mixed marriages, but the general picture stays the same - most Poles still speak Belarusian at home in Lithuania.
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These days they mostly speak Russian, just like the rest of Belarus, instead of Belarussian.
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This map is really good! Is there any way to get a higher resolution version of this map, in a PDF file for instance, I would love a copy on the wall of my student dorm. I wouldn't mind if i'd have to pay for it.
I'm not really familiar in the way mapmakers like you share their works of art, but I can imagine you wouldn't be too happy about sharing all your work. Which I would completely understand.
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Macedonian is own language? I thought they speak Bulgarian o.0
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Well, IMHO Torlakian should be independent, and Pirin is Macedonian speaking
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This has to be absolutely the most detailed and aesthetically beautiful linguistic map of Europe I have ever seen, the one you had before was great as well (although I will admit the lack of abkhaz really bugged me). But this one is 10 times more amazing, I can hardly find a mistake on here, I am just truly blown away.
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Hi, I saw this map on /r/europe and just had to check out some more of your work. I'm really impressed. I'm a bit of a map geek and have to ask: I understand that the data inputted into the map is yours but did you create the map itself or did you get it from somewhere? It's a gorgeous map and I'd love to own a copy, though just one without the data if possible.
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Hello, I created this map myself. Without the data, do you mean without the numbers indicating what languages are where?
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Regarding the local Berber languages, they are more widely spoken in North Africa than it is mentioned in your map (Southeastern Tunisia and large parts of South Algeria like Mozabite in Ghardaia City )
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Just "Wowww" !!!
One observation though : Nobody speaks occitan as a native language in Southern France anymore (exept maybe the old ones, and even that is not that true...)
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Nice Work! I wish wikipeda would have maps with this quality!
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Do you think you could do a language map for the Americas?
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The art is beautiful.
One criticism is that the distribution of the Welsh language is wrong. Its the majority in Gwynedd, Anglesey, Ceredigion and Carmarthenshire, and a prominent minority in the rest of North Wales. But in the (more densely populated) south almost no one speaks Cymraeg.
Your distributions for Gaelic and Irish are perfect though.
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I wish Breton was as spoken as it is represented on this map...
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Awesome, amazing, wonderful work!!! It's a very good map and document... Although I guess some additional language could be added, Aragonese for example...
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I will look into this. Thank you.
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Next do Japanese Empire after Axis Victory in WW2
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That's nice, but some improvements can be made:
It's probably better to at least divide German into Low German, Central German, High German (even better if you split it further into Alemannic and Bavarian, or even Franconian).
Also, Italian varies a lot, to the extent that six languages can be used in place of Italian: Italo-Corsican/Central Italian, Gallo-Italic (Ligurian/Lombard/Piedmontese/Emiliano-Romagnolo), Venetian, Tuscan, Neapolitan, Sicilian.
Plus, Catalan/Valencian is also spoken in western Valencia, despite it not being native in such parts.
Furthermore, Arabic is not mutually intelligible internally; seven groups exist. These are Maghrebi, Sudanese, Egyptian, Arabian Peninsular, Levantine, Mesopotamian, and Andalusian.
Polish, to a minor extent, is also spoken in half of Grodno/Hrodna Region
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1. I will not split up German as it is a single language.
2. If you look at footnote 2, you will see that Italian includes all the regional varieties.
3. The idea with this map is to show native languages, not second languages even if it is very widespread.
4. I will look into that to see if the separation is between languages or dialects.
5. Polish is less spoken than both Belarusian and Russian, which means they are shown instead.
Thank you for the comment!
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2. As a matter of fact most languages italy regards as "dialects" of italians are actually different languages, not dialects of Italian... In the north (Lombard, Venetian, Piedmontese, Ligurian, Emilian and Rumagnol) they are even quite distantly related to italian.
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Beautiful map! But it can be even better, I find some mistakes within Russia and Caucasus.
Sometimes you used adminisrative borders, but in Russia it's incorrect (yes, our adm. division is a bit foolish)
For example, Ingushi live only in the eastern part of Prigorodny rayon of North Ossetia (there are no ingushes to the west of Vladikavkaz). Armenians have not such a big enclaves, they live mostly in urban and suburban areas (I think, you can paint only city of Sochi as mixed Russian-Armenian speaking). Linguistic situation around Russian-Kazakhstan border is more, more interesting than in this map, especially there are no sufficient Kazakh-speakers in Russian Transvolgan area, and presentation of Russians in northern Kazakhstan is more mosaic. In Volga republics (Mordovia, Tatarstan, Bashkiria etc.) there will be no areas without Russian language, because all of people there are at least bilingual. Ah, and area of Tatar language in Siberia is really hurting me (there are only some blemishes of them).
Etc, etc.
You can use this maps, they are OK
kontur-map.ru/1510512_BIG_0_0.…
www.ngheix.win/www_hse_ru/data…
With best wishes, Maxim
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Thank you for the comment. As you said yourself, I went by administrative boundaries and that is why errors like these appear. I will look into those areas you mentioned and change them accordingly if I can find more detailed maps.
I don't doubt a majority of people everywhere in Russia speak Russian fluently. The regions indicating "no Russian" are only showing the largest native languages, not overall knowledge.
Can I send you a pm so that we could talk more about this? Your help is definitely appreciated.
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I speak Esperanto like a native, but don't find it on the map. 
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Esperanto is an artificial language, that's why it's not on the map.
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