Have some maps about languages.

Apr 21, 2016 7:28 AM

Earthgrubb

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All old-world (Eurasia+Africa) language families

All the languages

European languages

European dialects

Biggest minority languages in Europe

Asian languages

American languages

American native languages

Middle Eastern languages

African languages

India

This is why it's called a/the Subcontinent

Just Italy

The spread of romance languages,

Blame the Romans

Old world languages ~3000 BC

And finally, the hot mess that is the Caucasus

the_more_you_know

Watch your language! Jeez people these days.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I think the greatest superpower is to speak every langages.

10 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

I'd rather play every instrument.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I like maps.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Everyone does.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I love crap like this. +1

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Me too! You should join us nerds over at /r/MapPorn

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The top one isn't all old world language families. It's just the ones related to the Nordic languages (undo-European and Uralic).

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Oh damn, you're right.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Indo-European even. Thanks autocorrect.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

jep, that's taken from a comic called "stand still, stay silent" worth the read

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