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Why are some countries in yellow and others in grey? Is it to differentiate countries that have a IE language as an official lang. from other coutries? If so, I'm not so sure it's either necessary (making the map somewhat confusing) or entirely accurate...

Later palatalization
Can you really call this the current situation, when reflexes of "centum" in all modern Romance languages but Sardinian are pronounced with s rather than k? Also, both Germanic languages and Greek have changed the k to an h. (hundred, hekto) So only the Celtic languages and Sardinian preserve the k sound. --JWB (talk) 06:04, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

Mistake
Romanian is centum language, not satem. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.18.63.197 (talk) 22:59, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

Another Mistake
In this map finland is on wrong side. While finnish have lots of germanic and swedish loanwords it is still in its own language group. That language group includes Hungary and Estonian. The finnish word for hundred is "sata". —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.155.177.30 (talk) 20:43, 24 August 2009 (UTC)

Political Map
This map is incorrect, and politically motivated. Romanian is centum, not Satem; first of all... You cannot put the boundaries making any decision on Saami, Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian and Turkish... because they aren't Indo-European.

Also, the line is completely identical (except for where it goes through Turkey) to the old boundary between communist and non-communist states...

I therefore state that it is politically motivated and should be removed from pages it is on as it is not authoritative.

Also, calling MODERN Indo-European languages satem or centum is flawed on a number of grounds. Technically that would make French and English satemized by now, as c before front vowels has shifted to s.--Yalens (talk) 16:48, 19 September 2010 (UTC)