Sources: Goign through each Nations demogrphics sections and using previous language maps of the world.

Example.: when I wanted to find the majority language of Nunavut I look at the Wikipedia article for its demographics. The majority of native language is indigenous. Inuit language.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_family

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurdish_languages

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_language

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Nunavut#Language And so many more Wikipedia articles, too many too include

Tool: Mapchart.net

I thought Basque wasn't Indo-European?

What do you mean by 'detailed'?

higher granularity than just country-level.

I saw a previous map that only did language family by country, I thought there was a lot more to it, and countries by themselves have regions with different languages. So I decided to go on further and do it by subdivision, giving it more detail.

It's not, the basque region believe it or not, is majority Spanish Speaker.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basque_Country_(greater_region)#Demographics

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95% Guarani.

Wow, I didn't know Austria has even influenced Asian languages.

Can someone shed some knowledge on how language groups are identified.

And then there is Hungary...

I get that Japanese could isolate from other languages but isn’t it interesting that Korean did the same while not being on an island?

Hungary, Finno Urgic thought to be from near the Urals. They were one of many nomadic peoples from the central Asian steppes (though often they were from the European parts as well) who swept through Europe and they were one of the few to leave a lasting kingdom and language that survived to the modern world.

Similarities in words especially root words and grammar structures. Especially when you have more ancient forms preserved as for Latin, Greek and Sanskrit that was used to tease the first scientific theories of language groups.

Ohh I see, but being a native Hindi(said to be indo Europe) speaker I am pretty sure i won't understand even a word from german(Was making my way through learning Russian but hardly found any word that was close to its Hindi counterparts).

Whereas if i listen to kannada, which is a South Indian language (which is shown as Dravidian language)....i can pick words here and there.

People often do not understand other dialects of their own language.

In terms of individual words, languages will often take loan words from other languages, so for example Turkish has a lot of Persian words as the ruling class used to speak Persian. Or English is something like 1/3 loan words from French due to the ruling class speaking it. But if you go to pre Norman English (Anglo Saxon) it is much closer to early forms of Dutch (Friesian).

This is why when you have ancient forms of languages you can see more clearly the connections.

Also with Indo European the languages likely started to split about 6000 years ago when the various people migrated east towards India and Iran and west into Europe. So there is a huge amount of time for the languages to diverge. The similarities are in the shortest and oldest words, words for things like father, mother that kind of thing.

Aw that's a pity. It is a really unusual linguistic anomaly in Europe

I'm pretty sure that none of the first nations people in Australia would characterise their language as Indo-European.

Depending on how you count, there are between 250 and 363 different languages like that in Australia.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Aboriginal_languages

Maybe because of the mountains?

Correct me if I'm wrong: The Sounds that the languages use should be similar so you can write a the sound of a german word in Hindi.

There are two Counties in Romania with a hungarian majority: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarians_in_Romania

They don't constitue enough of the population to make a difference.

The title of your visualisation is "Detailed Language...", not "Primary Language...".

Not sure how you are doing the classification, but 95% speak Guarani, but also 95+% speak Spanish. Most people are dual lingual, but I think more people speak Spanish natively, or at least similar rates.... not sure how it would be on this map

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The detailed part is the subdivisions.

Was meant to be a joke regarding austroasian since many things starting with "austro" refer to Austria.

What’s happening in the UAE is it a age old farsi community or recent indian migrants

Quechua is spoken by about 500 thousand people in Argentina. 1400 thousand people live in Tucumán, 700 thousand in Jujuy.

There is a significant amount of quechua speakers in those provinces, but I highly doubt it surpasses 50% of the total population.

That area is a bit complicated I may have accidently colored the wrong province.

The majority race in the UAE is South Asian not Arab.

Don't worry about it. The only other province that I think could possibly surpass 50% is Santiago del Estero. I'll leave the details to you 👍

Why are there two Oranges?? Hard to tell them apart, they look the same, if they are different.

I don’t this this is very detailed. Seems like a high level overview. Many of these countries are teeming with linguistic diversity.

Ye I kinda ran out of colors, but it's not the complete same, also one of them says South Indian.

Yeah, I can see where the break is but it was just confusing at first glance to see South India lumped in with the other ones in Orange. That was new info to me, lol. It makes sense but even a darker orange would have worked.

Yes you will, if you are trained. The idea of grouping languages came exactly because of English and Germans encountering Sanskrit and Hindi and figuring out they were related. Name-Naam, Mutter-Maata, Vater-Pita,...

Even Western Classical languages:

Maharani = mega regina

The orange colors look identical.

How much time did you spent on europe? As i know, there are some regions around hungary that mayorly hungarian speaking.

We sometimes say "hungary is the only country which is surrounded by itself".

Paraguayan here, you're right, no idea why you're getting downvoted

OP is saying 95% speak guarani but that couldn't be farther from the truth.

Around ~90% UNDERSTAND the language and the majority do SPEAK it but it's nowhere near +90% levels.

Also apart from Guarani, people also speak Spanish...

I also highly doubt Inuit languages are classified as being part of the same FAMILY group as Tupi Guarani and others

Yeah.. but those 95% also speak Spanish..?

interesting, what parts, i guess serbia and romania, karpaty?

Technically Japanese isn't an isolate: it is part of the Japonic family along with the Ryukyuan languages.

EDIT: Korean is also related to the Jeju language, although the latter is severely endangered.

Inner Mongolia is also 70%+ Han Chinese, yet its language is marked as Mongolic?

No such thing as "Dravidian" plz refrain from using theories based on racism

why is the northern tip of tunisia grey?

Ah yes, the famous Greek-speaking Emperor penguins . I heard there's a tribe that speaks Latin too, but never with foreigners.

Related to Finnish. See map!

Native Australians: “Am I a joke to you?”

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That's mostly because kannnada has taken loaned some words from Hindi

Inner Mongolia is vast majority Sino-Tibetan today.

I know. I'm just liking the nice outline of Hungary in a sea of blue.

As a colorblind person, it is hell to identify the colors from the tiny squares on the left. Nice nap though.

It's not an "anomaly". Languages were much more varied before the ear of European imperialism and colonialism. The Europeans murdered so many people across the globe that vast numbers of languages were simply lost.

Language isolates are much more common than you think.

Detailed map of European Imperialism more like.

Central Romania, in the region of Szekely land should definitely be in green. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sz%C3%A9kely_Land

Source for this? Genuinely have never heard this.

A lot of research went into trying to define language families. It is a very interesting topic to read about. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European_language

The TL;DR version is that languages evolve in predictable ways. You can reverse engineer what a parent language would sound like by comparing its daughter languages. This is very similar to cladistic analysis in evolutionary biology. By comparing traits of organisms it is possible to reverse engineer how they evolved.

Like most scientific hypotheses the evidence for language families was pretty flimsy at first, but it had accumulated over time and is supported by archeological finds, and DNA analysis. All languages should have a common ancestor language far enough back, in the same way all organisms have a common ancestor. Unlike organisms, language does not have fossils and the language groups shown here are basically as far back as we are able to show similarities to languages.

India is one of the most interesting countries in the world linguistically because it has multiple language families. Because children tend to speak their parent’s language, the language families correspond to human migrations. The Dravidian speakers of South India used to be more wide-spread in India before proto-indo-europeans orginating from central asia displaced them. This is an incredibly interesting topic to read about. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peopling_of_India

It's similarities in very "basic" words for something as far removed as Hindi and German.

Things like family relations are often only a few sound-changes removed P<>V (sound like F) i <> a

Vater (Father) vs. Pita

even with only the change of i<>a you're very close to the latin "pater".

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There are other things, like the indian word "Raj" being very similar to it's latin translation "Rex".

UAE Indo-European thanks to all the people of Indian origin there lmaoo

If you are really a native Hindi speaker, then the words you might understand in Kannada are all Sanskrit loanwords in Kannada.

Probably, as well as southern Slovakia

What's up with the grey category? E.g. Northern part of Tunisia, border of Iran / Turkmenistan and so on...?

Good at first look but the details are fucking bullshits

Bro came to this thread with an agenda and he ain't stopping

Dravidian and Afto-Asiatic are supposed to be different kinds of orange, right?

Calm down down, they are right. It is a really unusual linguistic anomaly in Europe. As in: Languages spoken in Europe today dominantly derive from the indo-european language family.

That makes sense. My native language is English and I speak a bit of German, but I can understand written modern Dutch a lot better than Medieval English.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Infographics/comments/qps9gy/indoeuropean_for_two/

Check out this infographic for a more visceral sense of the family. The word for 'two' is similar across most of the indo-european family. Obviously not all words are like this, but it's an interesting graphic.

Another example of how a family is related but not mutually intelligible is that the English "black" and the French "blanc" ('white') come from the same origin - an older word referring to stuff left over after a fire. The English branch took this to mean charcoal, and the French branch took this to mean ash.

Who comprise 3% of the population, and who pretty much all speak English as well. There is the rare person who doesn't speak English, but the overwhelming majority do.

Basque is a language isolate, though some speculate that it is related to Caucasian languages, there is no consensus. But it's not an "anomaly" at all. This would suggest that it is unexpected. It is not unexpected: Basques have been living in that part of the world, speaking that language for as long as we have records. Nothing anomalous about them.

As a linguist I can tell you that language isolates are common across the globe, largely because of the damage wrought by European imperialism - they didn't just murder people, they murdered languages.

Worse, in London alone you can hear over 200 languages being spoken today. So your view of Europe and languages spoken in Europe is about an uninformed as it could be and obviously rooted in unexamined imperialist and colonialist attitudes.

You should go back to commenting on cat videos.

Sure, but a map that shows linguistic migration patterns is showing a very recent one.

Fine, an isolate then. Why didn't it suffice to make this distinction with three sentences, instead you had to derail in a condescending manner?

Is this official languages of countries or majority spoken languages of countries, since NZ only has te reo and sign as official languages.

Name me some other examples of languages in Europe like the euskara then. Name me examples in Europe of languages that go back millenia that have stayed relatively isolated and became their own language group. Because that was the original topic in this comment threat.

How is Khovsgol province of Mongolia is Indo-European??

I mean…you could at least have distinguished between Germanic and Romance languages… that’s a pretty big difference that’s not being acknowledged right there.

Lol @ "indigenous American" ... did we just get too tired to differentiate between Athabaskan, Eskaleut, Quechua, etc.? I get they're not as widely spoken or known as Indo European or Turkic but come on, mate. This isn't "detailed" 🙄

Wow you sure are an asshole

So this is only majority national languages? Taken this way, it sure looks way more homogeneous than it really is

You're a rude self-righteous preachy person. You've effectively squashed that person's interest in this subject, which I'm assuming you're invested in as a self titled linguist.

How terrible that London is so diverse that more languages are spoken there than anyone can even name. Get off your high horse and treat people with respect, dick.

https://youtu.be/nCPE2jIdYIE

As a non linguist, you are kinda annoying and condescending. Sneed.

Honestly I am not convinced the two aren't somehow related. Learning Korean it felt as though a quarter was basically Japanese words with weird pronunciation shifts and another quarter was Chinese in origin. I do get that both languages would have loanwords but for me the overlap felt a bit too intensive to both languages. Almost like a weird puzzle piece linking them.

There are theories that Japanese and Korean might be related but you'll get plenty of deniers on both sides (understandable considering their history) and it seems to be on that cusp where language studies either sides with loan-words and cross-pollination or with interrelatedness. That being said I do think that the Altaic language theory doesn't hold up. Just because there is an overlap from Japanese to Korean and than a questionable one to the Mongolic languages and so on until you land in the Turkic languages is not proof that they are all related. The same logic could be applied to Jp-Kor-Chn and then into Burmese. But Korean as a link barely works in this case and beyond the odd Chinese loanword you'll be hard pressed to find any relationship between Burmese and Japanese as opposite ends of the chain if you will.

All the white areas speak fish.

Then you shouldn't use any other colors for the Russian Federeation. There is no region except probably Caucasus where the majority speaks on aboriginal for the territory language. For example, the Resp. Bashkortostan are colored brown, but Bashkir language are currently used by only 1.4 million people in the world while the whole population of the Resp. is 4 million people.

most of south indian languages’ origin also has roots in Sanskrit. Where would you put sanskrit in? Indo-european?

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Here is an example. I think that there is a dance called the saptapadi, is that right? Done at marriages, and meaning seven steps.

In Latin the root septa means seven and pedes literally means feet but the root is used in lots of words to refer to walking or stepping.

Yeah while that's true, the Malayalam(which is yet another Dravidian language) for steps is "padikal"(which also seems to come from the same word padi).

Honestly I am still not convinced with this whole language grouping. Maybe i have to read into the links that people in other comments have shared.

Yeah while most are there are words which are like extensions or short form of certain Hindi or north Indian language words.

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God forbid that I should pollute Reddit with facts.

Or Whalish. Or Octopode

It is by language families. It is no bigger than the spread in any of the other large families

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It’s western oriented. But basically it’s historical plus linguistic. But this is by no means settled science and in the past leading theories or sidelined (especially non-western) ideas rose to prominence and consensus or were cast aside, and disagreement still exists.

Doesn’t it make more sense that French “blanc” is related to English “blank” not “black”

Blank is a later 'forking' of the word, coming to English via French.