The global spread of the Indo-european language family
“Indo-European” is a Co-opting term used by Western media to promote a Euro-superior race ( Ahem google the term “Aryan” ) which has previously led to disastrous results.
We need a much more nuanced and much more finer detailed investigations into how languages evolved and human migration, evolution, in-habitation, inter-settlement commerce and local developments happened simultaneously and while influence from both cultures existed it was not “co-opted” or “superior vs inferior” but much more natural , indigenous and SHARED but NOT subsumed by each other.
Had nothing to do with race or media. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-European_languages
It’s true, we still don’t speak English in northern Queensland (Australia) lol
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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.
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…
