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pastimedesign t1_jad8ab9 wrote

Cool graph, but do not see Gaelic. Isn't that an old language in Scotland?

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Urmambulant t1_jadczpx wrote

Grouped within Irish. There's about 40 thousand languages and dialects not represented and that's just the extant ones. Relationship between Scottish and Irish is comparable to somewhat late-ish latin and arbitrary early Romance language. Distinction can, and has been made, but it isn't useful in every situation.

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Pluto_and_Charon OP t1_jadts62 wrote

I cannot include every Indo-European language, there are 445

Unfortunately a language with 50,000 speakers is not going to make the cut.

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