Comments on: Language Map of Europe

By: Borna

Borna — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 11:08:58 +0000

Serbo-Croatian is not language, the is a group different languages;
1.Serbian language (kod: sr/srb)
2.Croatian language (kod: hr/hrv)
3.Bosnian language (kod: bs/bos)
4.Montenegrian language (kod: in progress)

By: Karel

Karel — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 12:51:59 +0000

In The Czech Republic is German Language? Its Joke?

By: Stefani

Stefani — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 06:55:54 +0000

I’m not looking at as that this language is spoken right here and no others are, but as hmmm these languages around here tend to belong to this family…I like it simply for the list.

By: Roarmerly

Roarmerly — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:41:48 +0000

OMG…serbo-croatian…be nice, people… it’s CROATIAN…

By: AlfeG

AlfeG — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:10:05 +0000

Bullshit… 80% of Ukraine is speaking russian…

By: marquinos

marquinos — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:06:29 +0000

Asturies in the north of Spain has the Asturian, Romance language

By: digi

digi — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 17:17:49 +0000

Almost all of Belarus’ and almost half of Ukraine is for Russian. Thus, Russian is underestimated.

By: Andrey

Andrey — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 07:04:43 +0000

Russia, like several other countries – a multinational country.
On your map of Russia is almost totally black. However, if you consider the spread of languages – Russia should be like a mosaic.

By: Me

Me — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 01:35:28 +0000

Fanciful, e.g. Welsh is a first language in only a small part of Wales, not the whole country. This map is obviously not based on any genuine research, just lazy assumptions.

By: serena

serena — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 23:38:48 +0000

it was nice but i need something a little better

By: R

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 18:35:17 +0000

A little insight from Brittany here : breton is not spoken anymore ! Yes sure, some old people can spoke, and a few schools still teach it. But really, people speak French… And in the east-est part of France, German is not the predominant language. ‘Alsacien’ is not uncommon, people usually take German in school, but it’s not a mother tongue…

Reading the other comments it seems like the part of Europe I don’t know well enough aren’t accurately represented either…

By: Jas

Jas — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 17:52:45 +0000

Elementary geography books (yes, they still exist) have done better job than this, and already pointed out the self-evident border/language system. There’s just so much wrooong, and if it was supposed to be something new at least it should’ve been done way more accurately.

By: Pernan

Pernan — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 11:25:46 +0000

Basque language is also spoken in a part of France. As many other places, it is in billingual areas (Basque + Spanish in Spain and Basque + French in France). Some Basques hate Spain, some feel they are Spaniards. Same Spaniards hate Basques, some don’t. The same in the French part. I speak Basque language, and also Spanish, and a little bit English. I blog comics in Basque language. I don’t feel myself Spaniard, neither Basque. But it would be a pitty that these small languages would lost, don’t you think so?

By: Shasta

Shasta — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:06:11 +0000

We are spaniards.

By: Shasta

Shasta — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:05:11 +0000

People in the basque country speaks mostly spanish.
We do not hate spaniards…

By: boohoo

boohoo — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:23:23 +0000

In Scotland, more people speak Urdu than Gaelic.

This map is pish.

By: Rowan Duffy

Rowan Duffy — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:03:45 +0000

Conflating Serbian and Croatian is somewhat understandable. At least they’re obviously in the same language family. However, conflating Ingush and Georgian? That’s just bizarre.

By: stripofil

stripofil — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:09:29 +0000

The borders are not accurate and serbian and croatian are 2 languages plus some language colors are overstreched…

By: SSD

SSD — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:13:38 +0000

This is soooo inaccurate.Especially the southern part of Greece (Peloponisos) that shows something like Albanian spoken community.
I don’t know in what stats is based this but, to my
knowledge (I come from this area ,and i know it pretty well) there is no significant percentage of Albanian speakers in any part of it.
Also Albanian immigrants tend to perfectness their Greek language, their kids attend Greek schools, and using their mother tongue less and less,so there is no way that there will be a significant accumulation of Albanian speakers in any part of Peloponissos up to now.

By: Ricardo Tavío

Ricardo Tavío — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:50:56 +0000

Totally agree with Harry Poker. The map ignores bilingual areas and considers that some territories only speak a language that is absolutely less spoken for the population. A more accurate approach should include the usage of the language by the population and not only it’s existance.

By: Kaz

Kaz — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:58:49 +0000

Basque is just Basque because it is of unknown origin and it is not related to any language spoken today. Many, many theories have been made, but all have flaws, including that one that said they came from Atlantis (yeah, it’s out there).

By: ByrdBrain

ByrdBrain — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:38:46 +0000

Yes, it is just “Basque, and that is why the Spaniards hate them and vice-versa.

By: Douglas2

Douglas2 — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:44:06 +0000

So happy to see that my favourite: “Maltese” made the list. But what’s with “Basque” — every other language gets family classifications to catalogue it, but Basque is just “Basque”.

By: Morz

Morz — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:22:15 +0000

That’s really cool. I really like how it shows different languages in the same family with different shades.

Malena:”its either serbian or croatian btw…”
Nope, it’s perfectly acceptable to use serbo-croatian.

By: malena

malena — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:57:36 +0000

its either serbian or croatian btw…

By: Skipweasel

Skipweasel — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:40:17 +0000

Great stuff – but being colour blind I can’t really make out the differences between the shades. I can just about do it on the key, but which is which on the map is beyond me.

By: hedwig

hedwig — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:50:04 +0000

fantastic! Europe’s history can be traced in the languages spoken in any given place. The effect of the Soviet Union also totally altered the distribution of Russian. As a native Eng speaker in Eastern Europe, I find this kind of thing fascinating.

By: Harry Poker

Harry Poker — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:45:08 +0000

That’s terrible unaccurate, mainly because it ignores bilingial areas.