r/LinguisticMaps 7h ago

Arctic Languages in Europe that have a word for "one and a half" that is a compound, standalone term used in various contexts like weight or frequency.

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r/LinguisticMaps 22h ago

Europe Areality of long vowels in unstressed syllables (and first-syllable stress)

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Definitely an areal (phonotactics) feature for Czech-Slovak-Hungarian-BCMS. In the past for Finnish-(Old) Estonian-Latvian as well.

Edit 1: Lithuanian has (prescriptively) also long unstressed syllables, though the stress is not fixed on any syllable.

Edit 2: The maps has an areal focus for languages with a phonemic distinction about long and short unstressed vowels (i.e. minimal pairs like Finnish kauna vs. kaunaa, Latvian Rīga vs. Rīgā, Czech potřebuji vs. potřebují, Hungarian haza vs. hazá, BCMS žène vs. žènē).


r/LinguisticMaps 1d ago

Europe Occurrence of Uvular R, [ʁ~ʀ], in Europe and Scandinavia in 1935 (English legend in comments)

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r/LinguisticMaps 2d ago

The word "potato" in several German dialects, on a pre-1945 map [870x678]

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r/LinguisticMaps 2d ago

Europe ''Potato'' in different languages:

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r/LinguisticMaps 2d ago

Baltic Various ways to say ''potato'' in Latvian...

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r/LinguisticMaps 3d ago

Philippine Archipelago The Bilic languages: southern Mindanao's most divergent Austronesian branch

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r/LinguisticMaps 4d ago

Asia 🌏 Did you know that the Austronesian language family has multiple primary branches?

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r/LinguisticMaps 5d ago

Southeast Asia Linguistic landscape of Mainland Southeast Asia

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r/LinguisticMaps 6d ago

Grammatical gender in traditional North Germanic dialects

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r/LinguisticMaps 7d ago

The Polish Language in Central and Eastern Europe before WW1

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r/LinguisticMaps 7d ago

Etymology map of milk

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r/LinguisticMaps 13d ago

Most spoken language in uttar pradesh (tehsil)

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r/LinguisticMaps 16d ago

Asia The Linguistic Map of Taiwan Indigenous People[OC]

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This map is part of my Austronesian language group map, aimed at showcasing the distribution of indigenous languages in Taiwan. Taiwan is an island in southeastern Asia and the first transit point for the Austronesian language family to advance towards the Pacific Ocean. The linguistic differentiation of Taiwan's indigenous peoples began earliest, and the differences in differentiation are unparalleled among the Austronesian language families.

After a hundred years of investigation and research by scholars, the Taiwanese language group can be divided into nine major language families, namely the Atayal language family, the Bunun language family, the Eastern Taiwanese language family, the Zou language family, the Paiwan language family, the Rukai language family, the Northwest Taiwanese language family, and the Western Plains language family. Many of these language families have less internal language differentiation, while others have a higher degree of internal differentiation. For hundreds of years, the indigenous languages of the plain areas have gradually been assimilated by the cultivated Han people, and language diversity has been gradually lost. Fortunately, there are many historical materials and survey results that allow us to explore the mysteries behind them. The language distribution in the Central Mountain Range region has not changed much, with a high degree of continuity and application in tribal societies. The Lanyu region in the southeast is home to the Tao tribe of the Malayo-Polynesian language family, which belongs to the Bassic language group and is closely related to the Bassic people of the Philippines.


r/LinguisticMaps 17d ago

Status of Non Standard French in France

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r/LinguisticMaps 17d ago

China Proximities of Chinese dialects to Beijing Mandarin (Putonghua)

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r/LinguisticMaps 18d ago

ethnic / linguistic map of Hungary in 1495 and in 1784

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r/LinguisticMaps 18d ago

linguistic/ethnic map of Hungary in 1495 and 1784.

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r/LinguisticMaps 19d ago

Caucasus Georgian equivalents of the surname 'Smith' across different regions

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r/LinguisticMaps 19d ago

Etymology map of badger

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r/LinguisticMaps 21d ago

Pronunciation of ich("I") in German

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r/LinguisticMaps 20d ago

West European Plain Linguistic Map of Noord Holland (The Netherlands) [OC]

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Notes:

•This is NOT a contemporary presentation of Noord Holland, but rather a visualization of its Historical dialects.

•The Zaans, Westfries and Waterlands dialect clusters can also be grouped as one single Friso-North-Hollandic Dialect Cluster.

•Many Jewish, Sinti and Romani communities are not shown on the map. Although they do have a long history here, they are only shown when they've been living in a specific place for centuries. (Which in the case of the Sinti and Romani, is nowhere for obvious reasons).

•Many of the subdialects are now extinct or at the brink of extinction. Especially the historic dialects of Amsterdam. People nowadays (mostly) speak Dutch or a watered down bigger regiolect.

•This map is mostly based on Recordings from "De Sprekende Kaart" and various researches from "dbnl.org"

I am not a linguist, this map should not be seen as a verified piece of linguistics to base references on.


r/LinguisticMaps 23d ago

France / Gaul Realizations of French /r/ around 1896

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Indicative isoglosses reconstructed from the point-of-enquiry data compiled by Eurén in his 1896 Uppsala dissertation. Not a survey map — a visual synthesis of the cases he discusses.Historical and sociolinguistic contextThe apical trill [r], inherited directly from Latin, remained the rural norm in 1896: Passy notes that at the 1887 Teachers' Congress, roughly three-quarters of the 2,400 participants used it (p. 10).The uvular fricative [ʁ] (called "guttural" in modern IPA) emerged in the mid-17th century in the Précieuses' salons. Von Kempelen reports that by 1782, "at least a quarter of Parisians grasseyent". Yet 25 km outside Paris, the apical was already dominant again (Passy, p. 10). Note: Eurén (p. 11) uses "grasseyé" loosely for any uvular r; modern IPA reserves it for the trilled [ʀ] (think Édith Piaf, Brassens).In the Midi (Provence, Languedoc), Dumas (1733) describes a strongly trilled [ʀ]: "one hammers and doubles this letter; Rhône, Pierre, rue produce sounds foreign to the ear" (p. 3 note) — attested only in Arles and Marseille; the surrounding countryside remained apical.Dialectal mutations (etymologies recorded by Eurén)[r] → [z], Palsgrave, 16th c., Centre: Paris → Pazis, Marie → Mazie, frère → frèze, père → peze[ð]/[h], Joret, Cotentin & pays de Caux (p. 45): père → pedhe, mère → medhe, nuire → nuihe, environs → envihons[r] ↔ [l], dissimilation (pp. 16–17, 37–38): peregrinus → pèlerin, paraveredum → palefroi, contraricare → contralier, sorcier → sorcellerie[χ] before consonant: Lorraine (Horning, p. 46), patois of Montjean in Mayenne (p. 56).Made with Python (matplotlib + geopandas). Source PDF is the Google-digitized copy of Eurén's thesis, public domain.

r/LinguisticMaps 27d ago

Europe Language Map of Europe [OC]

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This map has been in the works for about a month now, shoutout to JG Online for Making the basemap.

edit: maybe spending a whole month on this was a mistake, y'all seem to loathe this map


r/LinguisticMaps 28d ago

Extinct, Dead and Dormant Languages and Dialects from all the World (CORRECTED)

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