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Published: 2013-08-28 11:53:30 +0000 UTC; Views: 53807; Favourites: 270; Downloads: 1163
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Linguistic map of Europe as of today. Striped areas indicate several mother tongues in the region. For example, Brussels is a majority-French city, shown striped French and Dutch because of the Dutch minority residing there.
Edit on January 5th (I followed some of your suggestions)
-Added Occitan
-Added German minority in Silesia
-Added Italian (Corsican) on Corsica
-Added English in Malta
-Grouped Ladin and Friulan together
-Changed the colour of Greek to better distinguish it from Arabic
-Increased the size from 2300x2000 to 2800x2400
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Neither are dead, but speakers of such comprise such a small minority of their local populations that they don't qualify as the mother tongue of any area of the map.
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I get it. I think I posted this comment way back in my militant Cornish revival phase. And I still agree that it should be revived, I'm just not militant anymore.
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You forgot to add the Greek minority in southern Albania
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I would like to see Venetian on the map, it is spoken by many people in this area:
www.heberger-image.fr/data/ima…
(Map of Venetian dialects).
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NICE! but you forgot Italian in Istria and Dalmazia...
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You mean "Slavomacedonian" not "Macedonian" please fix it !!!
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What you mean ?? its a Slavic language spoken by people that live in historical region that was called Paeonia ... i speak Russian and i understand them verry well
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I know it's a Slavic language but I have never heard it being called "Slavomacedonian" before. Do you have any sources?
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macedoni…
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So it's only used by Greece. I'm gonna keep it Macedonian, since that is its name in English.
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The two spots, number 19 and 45 in Serbia are actually Slovak and not Hungarian and Romanian
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Another thing that looks like a mistake, is the southern border of Kaliningrad to Poland,
I´d say it can´t be that straigt, it must be a bow, following the other map lines.
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Look at where it is. The line is almost straight at the middle.
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I mean your basic map has bowed meridians, so the border must be bowed, too, doesn´t it?
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Plus, the south line of the Kaliningrad oblast does not follow the curvature of the earth. It is very nonsensical, look it up on google maps.
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why there is no Italian dialects (that very different from oficial, Toscan italian), and some small minority? and Sardo is not italian. in azerbaijan there is no talish language (at south-east)
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Luxembourg's color might be better if it were split between French, Dutch and German.
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Hey nice, thanks for adding the german minority in Silesia, sadly you forgot the minority in Siebenbürgen (Transsylvania in Romania),
the capital is Hermannsstadt (romanian: Sibiu).
I can´t see it well, but did you add the minority at Denmark, too?
I think there´re even some more in Hungary.
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Hey, my Friend!
I don't know about the other regions of Hungary, but in the South-western region, parts of Somogy, where german-based people were common in 1900's, there are very few left. I lived in a village, which was once home of almost 300 german-speaking people, along 300-700 people, who spoke hungarian only. Now the village has only 270 inhabitants, with only 2-3 families, who speak german, i mean, not the taught one, but which they learned from their ancestors. Their names were Kachstettner, Loósz, Heizer, Stéger, Fábri etc. We called this people sváb (schwabish, i think). They had protestant religion mainly, they even had their own cemetery.
As i know, they
1. moved abroad (mainly Germany, in 1956, and after the fall of the iron courtain)
2. Moved to bigger hungarian cities (a few of them)
3. Most of these families chosen spouse of their own kind, although, they were equal part of the community.
4. The ones, who stayed, doesn't learn german, cause they have nobody to speak to anymore, although, there is a vast population of German people, from Germany, who bought houses in the area (15-20 families in my village). Once i asked them, whether they understand what Schwäbisch people told them, but they didn't, they said, it's a wrung-out version of german. They were from Bayern, Altötting.
I knew an old couple (Imre Loósz (Emerich Loósz) and Magdolna Stéger (Magdalena Stéger)), who lived in our street, me and my parents helped them, when they got old, as they always helped us too earlier. They are gone now, but they have a wonderful story of ethernal love, hard work, and honest life, everyone should hear about...
Sometimes i have kind of a home sickness, missing my earlier home, just as it was, with these people, including the mentioned Schwäbisch families.
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Are any of those still around though? I thought at least the Banat Germans were expelled in 1945.
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Nearly no Germans were expelled from Romania in 1945, mostly the Germans in which is now Poland and Czechia were expelled,
the Germans in Romania left in different migration-waves in the 60s, 70s,90s, especially after 1990, when the Sowjetunion collapsed.
Even not all Germans in the Sudetenland were expelled in 1945, many left as fast as possible, which was sometimes in the 60s or 70s.
But today are not many Germans left down there, but there are still a few thousand.
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Very well done! Would you perhaps be able to do a map, same style, based on the 1900 languages?
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This is very impressive work! A lot of detailed information and excellent graphical presentation at the same time. Well done!
I only have one suggestion: You might want to consider using different colors or shades for the Western Romance languages and for Greek, to distinguish them more clearly from their non-Indo-European neighbors (Arabic, Berber and Turkish). Just switching around the shades of green you use for Romanian and Spanish, for example, would increase the contrast between Spanish and Berber/Arabic.
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Still, no Occitan is a big mistake.
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coooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool
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This is a brilliant map, but where are Abkhaz, Votic, Manx, Montenegrin and Silesian?
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isn't te situation with Arabic far more complex, with standartised arabic being just language of government and media, while people speak regional "dialects" which are actually a separate languages?
I guess same situation is with Italian, maybe German and surely with "Berber"
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I'm aware of the fact that Berber isn't actually one single language, but for claritys sake, it is shown as one. The same is true for the other languages that you mentioned, too. German is more unified towards Standard German nowadays, but I'm pretty sure Italian is still fairly fractured. Again, for clarity, I decided not to show Neapolitan, Sardinian, Sicilian etc as separate langauges.
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Oh man, I have been looking everywhere for something like this. Thanks so much for making this!
If I can make a suggestion, I do think there's not enough variation within the colours (i.e. the blues are too close to each other, same with the reds, greens, etc. The Finno-Permian group looks good, though.). As it is, it has a very good "map-like" feel, but the small variation within each colour group makes it necessary to consult the key more often than one would like to.
Aside from that, though, great work! 
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Okay, I've changed all Germanic languages' colours now. Hopefully it is easier to distinguish them now. Also, the West Germanic languages have a teal/green tint while the North Germanic languages have more clear blue colours.
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I'll definitely look into that. I think the reds and the greens are pretty good as they are now, but I do agree on the blues.
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A labor of love and anti-anxiety medications.
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A question: what is that enclave of Poles in Germany?
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its not an enclave of poles, west slavs lived in what is now east germany sice early dark ages, Dresden, Leipzig, Lubeck, Berlin are all names of slavic origin.. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorbs en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polabian…
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Wow I didn't even know that those guys existed.
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How did you make this map? It looks really good.
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Beautiful map!
I´m not sure if they are still big enough, but there is still a german minority in Schlesien (Silesia) and in Siebenbürgen (Romania near the Szekelys). Poor Elsass-Lothringers german dialect is slowly dieing ><
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In north poland (pommern) the people speak Kashubian
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I'll look it up to see if it's big enough to show.
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Is there a Hungarian-speaking community in Romania?
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A very large one at that, roughly 1 000 000 people. They're called the Szekelys.
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