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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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It's really cool and I love it! However, correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that near the Lithuanian language should also be Samogitian.
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Samogitian seems to be regarded by most people as a dialect, so that is the way I will keep it.
Thank you.
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Pretty cool, you have put in a lot of effort. However, the romance countries have a lot of local languages that are not gov't recognized. You deserve this favourite.
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This is really cool. Are you gathering the data personally? Or finding it in some kind of linguistic archives? It's always interesting seeing the maps and developments of language, so thanks for the hard work!
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I used different sources. Both maps and where available, censuses.
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That's very cool. It can be a lot of hard work, and language is so fluid it's hard to get a hold on it. ^_^
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This is one of the best maps you've ever made, looks so well done and clean! Are you going to make any more maps of Germany?
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I have no idea, I make maps of whatever interests me at any given time
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amazing map, probably the best ethno-linguistic map I have seen on the internet (I like looking at ethnic maps for fun). I have a few suggestions tho
1. Turkey upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia…
more coming
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German minority of Kazakhstan is also missing www.globalsecurity.org/militar…
Alsace Lorraine is pretty much all French now and the Saarland is bilingual.
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The German minority of Kazakhstan doesn't speak German, which is why it is not shown.
A large part of Alsace-Lorraine (around a quarter of all inhabitants) still have German as their native language, even if that number is decreasing.
Thank you for the critique.
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This is brilliant! How do you manage to create maps like these?
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Patience and Adobe Illustrator
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Are there really that many Albanian speakers around Athens?
EDIT: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arvanite… damn, so there are, you learn something new every day
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fantastic job! Italy is very accurate, for further accuracy I suggest you to read this ^^
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You miss polish minority on Belarus in the western part of country.
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No. From the sources I have read most ethnic Poles in Belarus have Belarusian or Russian as their native language. (According to Polish Wikipedia only 1% of Belarusian Poles speak Polish natively)
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Amazing map
I only see 3-4 minor things : Luxembourg tend to be trilingual nowaday (Luxemburgish, French & German), and there is still French and Norman speakers in Channel islands
I was wondering, wasn't Gibralter also speaking Spanish and a local anglicized Ibero-romance dialect ?
And I guess you consider Cornish as a dead language, even if some people try to re-speak it again ?
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1. Luxembourg is coloured as monolingual because Luxembourgish is most people's native language, which is what this map is showing. Their knowledge of French and German is irrelevant here.
2. From what I found, French is not a native language on the Channel Islands any more, and Jèrriais is only spoken by less than 2% of the population, which is too small to show.
3. Gibraltar will be edited to show both Spanish and English. I was completely unaware of Llanito.
4. Dead languages are not shown.
Thank you
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Okay, thanks for the explanation
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Amazing map to an interesting topic!
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Beautiful as ever! Some things missing though; the area in Belgium between the German-speaking and the Flemish-speaking regions is bilingual speaking both French and a Dutch dialect (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_Diet… ), there is an area on the Belgian/Dutch/German border that was a weird transitional dialect that according to who you ask is either German or Dutch so there is a potential bilingual area there (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southeas… & en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Gu… ) and however it's largely French-speaking now the Luxembourgish is still spoken to an extend in the Arelerland (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arelerla… ) and Franconia Lorraine (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorraine… ).
Edit: I also think you can make the British Army Bases English-speaking 
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Thank you for the comment. Belgium will be updated in the next version. However, Arelerland was only 6,2% German speaking in 1947 (last census I could find) which means it is probably even less now. Too few to show on the map, in my opinion.
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I know, but on the same page a bit further it says that 25% of the population was bilingual french/German(Luxembourgish) in 1947.
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Probably the best map of this kind on the internet, fantastic overview!
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