The global spread of the Indo-european language family
Huh no one in Alice Springs speaks English?
That’s a very uh … unique way to map Australia.
How is no one in 1950 native to European languages in africa besides south africa?
I’m guessing, it doesn’t list the colonizers there, because in terms of numbers, they’re irrelevant…
Yes, let’s ignore the whole of the Americas and Australia.
Lots of people in African ex colonies are native speakers of Portuguese and French. I presume this was already the case in 1950.
Then I guess, I was guessing wrong? I’m not trying to claim anything and I did specify “there”, because I did notice the Americas and Australia. I assumed, the definition of “native speaker” was maybe a bit special here…
There are too many French-speaking people in Africa, even as a second language, to ignore in this map. French being maybe an unofficial, but definitely shared language among different regions and nations across most of the continent. For example, how someone from Nigeria would communicate with someone from Cameroon.
Is that strip across Russia simply the populated parts of Russia? Presumably, the North is too cold for much more than a few secluded villages…
For a moment, I thought, that might be a remnant of the Silk Road, but that was quite a bit further south…
Modern silk road, called trans-siberian railway, the railroad through Russia. Factories and cities were built next to the railroad. A lot of other nations live in russia, but they are not indo-europeans, and much smaller in numbers.
There are 25 regional official languages in russia, only 2 of them indo-european: Osetian and Ukrainian. Most others are Turkic and Uralic https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Russia
Also this map is shitty, as it doesn’t show what percentage of people speak the language, 51% looks the same as 99%.
It’s true, we still don’t speak English in northern Queensland (Australia) lol
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