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Various linguistic maps of Europe
Source: http://thedockyards.com/linguistic-maps-of-europe/
Below are 15 different maps of Europe depicting the languages spoken in the continent. According to the mainstream linguistic classification in Europe there are 6 major Indo-European families (Romance, Slavic, Germanic, Balto-Slavic, Celtic and Hellenic) alongside a non-Indo-European family, the Finno-Ugric linguistic branch comprising Hungarian, Finnish and Estonian. Some of these maps are based on ethnic criterion, others solely on the linguistic one. The entire linguistic classification in Europe by linguistic arch is the following one:
- Romance languages (Italian, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Romanian, Catalan)
- Germanic languages (German, Dutch, English, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic, Scots, Frisian, Faroese)
- Slavic languages (Russian, Serbian, Polish, Croatian, Slovakian, Slovenian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Czech, Belorussian, Macedonian, Bosnian, Montenegrin)
- Hellenic languages (Greek)
- Albanian
- Finno-Ugric languages (Finnish, Hungarian, Estonian)
- Baltic languages (Latvian, Lithuanian)
- Celtic languages (Irish, Breton, Manx, Cornish, Welsh, Scottish Gaellic)
Statistics by number of native speakers worldwide:
Romance languages
- Spanish (410 million speakers)
- Portuguese (216 million speakers)
- French (75 million speakers)
- Italian (60 million speakers)
- Romanian (28 million speakers)
Germanic languages
- English (360 million speakers)
- German (100 million speakers)
- Dutch (23 million speakers)
- Swedish (9 million speakers)
- Danish (5.5 million speakers)
Slavic languages
- Russian (155 million speakers)
- Polish (40 million speakers)
- Ukrainian (30 million speakers)
- Serbo-Croatian (19 million speakers)
- Czech (10 million speakers)
Baltic languages
- Lithuanian (3.0 million speakers)
- Latvian (1.75 million speakers)
Languages in Europe.
Distribution of European languages in 1910
Distribution of European languages in 1848. Note: there are small errors on the map (Albanian is not a Slavic language, Hungarian is also spoken in several other countries, etc.).
Languages in Europe by country.
European language families. Note: Hungarian is also spoken in the Carpathian basin
Indo-European linguistic branches in Europe. Note: the errors are the same as above.
Languages of Europe based on ethnic criteria.
Romance languages in Europe.
German map from 19th century showing the distribution of peoples and languages in the old continent.
Languages of Europe.
Alternative map of European languages (classification by linguistic family).
The word for Christmas in various European languages.
The word for flower in various European languages.
Official linguistic map of Europe.
Distribution of European languages in 2001.
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