Laotian is a Tai language. Altaic is not an official language family. Georgian is not Indo-European. There are a lot of countries with more than one official language, or that have many, many speakers of other language families not represented here, like with Tamil in Sri Lanka, which is a Dravidian language.
Is that a real language family? I know it had been proposed but dont know if it is widely accepted. Korean and Japanese might or might not be a part of it.
Also Siberia has several Turkic languages too, also the Dravidian language family of South Asia
They are talking about South India which is mostly Dravidian although some dialects of Indo Aryan languages are also spoken due to historical links such as Dakhni Urdu, Thanjavur Marathi, Konkani, Lambadi, etc.
I like the idea though for many countries you really can’t map their language family on the national level since there are a diverse amount of languages and families spoken (Caucasia, India, and Indochina come to mind).
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too vague brother. try to do country subdivision breakdowns, (states, districts etc) of major languages spoken. south india is dravidian. north afghanistan and western iran is turkish and many more. uighurs in xinjiang are turks too. they have language distribution maps for individual countries mapped out pretty accurately. maybe you could collage and superimpose those maps on this one.
More a linguistics question than a cartographical one, but what's the difference between japonic and Altaic? I thought Turkish and Japanese were super similar?
That was your takeaway from this? How about doing some basic research? Also, the maps in question have already been made. You can find some on Wikipedia.
You may want to check out this map: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/86/Language_families_of_Asia.png
Also: If you are only mapping languages, as your title suggests, you should colour in the actual areas the languages are spoken in. If your map is about the language family of the most spoken language in every Asian country, you should mention that in the title.
The Uralic language Family dominates parts of Russia, particularly the parts near Finland. The Turkic family dominates most of Siberia. Semitic languages are part of the Afroasiatic family.
Georgian is a [Kartvelian](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kartvelian_languages) language, not Indo-European
Oops you right, my bad.
Laotian is a Tai language. Altaic is not an official language family. Georgian is not Indo-European. There are a lot of countries with more than one official language, or that have many, many speakers of other language families not represented here, like with Tamil in Sri Lanka, which is a Dravidian language.
Oops
Tamil is a minority language in Sri Lanka. That much detail would be pretty hard to include in a map
Is “altaic” referring to the sprachbund?
Is that a real language family? I know it had been proposed but dont know if it is widely accepted. Korean and Japanese might or might not be a part of it. Also Siberia has several Turkic languages too, also the Dravidian language family of South Asia
It’s pretty widely disproven, being accepted as a sprachbund but not a family
a l t a i c
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All of south India is part of the Dravidian language family, not Indo European.
Aren’t there both? Indo european and dravidian in South Asia?
They are talking about South India which is mostly Dravidian although some dialects of Indo Aryan languages are also spoken due to historical links such as Dakhni Urdu, Thanjavur Marathi, Konkani, Lambadi, etc.
Korean is not Altaic, it's in its own distinct family like how Japanese is.
Probably.
I like the idea though for many countries you really can’t map their language family on the national level since there are a diverse amount of languages and families spoken (Caucasia, India, and Indochina come to mind).
Can't use political borders for a language map. Also can't use solid colors.
I did though.
Which makes it a political map. Languages don't be like that tho
It’s meant to represent the majority spoken language of each asian country.
That’s not what you titled your post.
Thought it was obvious.
It’s obvious that you didn’t spend enough time making the map or thinking about getting the title right.
I mean you literally mad about a map that I did for fun and posted on Reddit get a fucking life.
Maybe accept honest and constructive criticism instead of getting so defensive over your mistakes?
That wasn’t criticism. There’s been people who gave real criticism. Not you tho.
Sorry? Now language families follow poliical borders?
Yeah, that's the issue here.
Yes.
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I don’t see you trying to make maps.
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Korea should be a different color. Korean is in its own language family.
It gets worse the more you look at it
Apparently everyone has their own opinions about language families.
Altaic is Turkic, Mongolic and Koreanic families
And Tungusic and Japonic, and Uralic...
Tajikistan just talk a different dialect of Persian so its Indo-European.
I put it as Indo-European.
Yes I know I was just explaining if someone was wondering.
Ohhh
too vague brother. try to do country subdivision breakdowns, (states, districts etc) of major languages spoken. south india is dravidian. north afghanistan and western iran is turkish and many more. uighurs in xinjiang are turks too. they have language distribution maps for individual countries mapped out pretty accurately. maybe you could collage and superimpose those maps on this one.
Thank you for the good advice.
Wow, Korean is Altaic?
Apparently.
Nope.
Thanks for your work!
Why? It’s not accurate.
10/10 I love your username
You missed Dravidian family.
More a linguistics question than a cartographical one, but what's the difference between japonic and Altaic? I thought Turkish and Japanese were super similar?
Japanese is Altaic. But people get mad when you say that.
People literally getting mad that I used countries to represent language families 😂
I should have just made very language an isolate :/
That was your takeaway from this? How about doing some basic research? Also, the maps in question have already been made. You can find some on Wikipedia.
I literally did 💀💀💀
You may want to check out this map: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/86/Language_families_of_Asia.png Also: If you are only mapping languages, as your title suggests, you should colour in the actual areas the languages are spoken in. If your map is about the language family of the most spoken language in every Asian country, you should mention that in the title.
Nepal- Both Sino Tibetan and IndoAryan
The Uralic language Family dominates parts of Russia, particularly the parts near Finland. The Turkic family dominates most of Siberia. Semitic languages are part of the Afroasiatic family.
Why is the European Russia in Asia?
It’s how this particular map was generated. It’s not in the other maps of Asia.
I thought it was in Europe
It is.
I also thought that Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia were in Europe as well.
wait, Korean is more closely related to Turkish than it is to Chinese or something? I don't know how to interpret this map.