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Nova Scotia/Cape Breton
both these areas should be Germanic(English) instead of Romance(French). Parts of New Brunswick (approx 39%) is French speaking but the rest is English. Monre (talk) 16:31, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Newfoundland as well is Germanic. 24.89.245.158 (talk) 17:24, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

Missing languages
This map does not show Ngäbere in southern Panama nor Wayuu on the Guajira Peninsula of Colombia and Venezuela. Both are indigenous languages of the Americas. This map also does not show magenta color for Romance languages in New Caledonia.

Pama-Nyungan
I'm absolutely positive that NT is not majority Pama-Nyungan speaking. Saimdusan Talk|Contribs 08:01, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

Hello all, currently I'm out of the net, without a working comp in my posession. I'm not intending to do any corrections in the image for a long time. Maybe someone else is willing to check it thoroughly. Dreg743 currently on 88.195.46.112 (talk) 07:17, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

Celtic languages
The Celtic languages constitute a branch of the Indo-European language family, and they are not language isolates. Ireland is mostly English-speaking (i.e. West Germanic) at present, but, in any case, Ireland and the Scottish Highlands should not be colored grey, since that is the color that the legend says is used for "isolates." Ebizur (talk) 16:59, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

surely both Scotland and Ireland should be all or in the great majority 'Germanic Green' if we're depicting current first languages? This needs to be corrected though. Should someone assert a colour for the Celtic family? 86.128.34.95 (talk) 14:36, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

Norwegian
Swedish on this map seems to be Norwegian, the two are in fact different languages, albeit similar, but not the same! Juckum (talk) 13:18, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
 * I strongly agree. Swedish has lost many features which are still in the Norwegian language; Swedish has only got two grammatical cases, Norwegian has three. Also, Swedish language doesn't contain diphthongs, while the Norwegian language (especially nynorsk and høgnorsk) does. And then we have Icelandic, Danish and Faeroese in the other northern countries. I think it should be changed from «Swedish» to «Nordic» or «North Germanic» as this would be more correct. 85.166.4.115 (talk) 20:21, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

Caucasian languages
The Caucasian languages are not Indo-Euroepean but form a distinct language family. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.112.137.176 (talk) 16:21, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

Certain Problems
Here, very small languages are shown, but languages like Malayalam, Tulu, Kotagu (Coorg), etc are not shown. This gives a wrong Representation. Also, some idioms like Urdu are shown as languages, though this is a matter of dispute. The colours of North Indian and Chinese languages also seem to mix. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.252.231.118 (talk) 09:20, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

Colour scheme
Maybe a colour scheme in which closer groups were closer coloured would be better. e.g. all the IE families could be various shades of red.

Ordinary Person (talk) 09:50, 30 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Yes, this was the intention originally, then my computer crashed because the image became too large to edit, so I had to stick with 256 colors. Now I don't have the program that I used making this, learning another program... User:Dreg743 on 85.156.121.226 Thank you all for your corrections. That's about the maximum size of an image I can print, and I do not see a point in adding so many names for languages that they overlap. Does anybody by the way know if the Benue-Congo classification in wikipedia is consensus?

Armenian Language
Armenian is not part of Indo-Iranian languages, as insists this map. It's an independent branch of Indo-European. --Vahagn Petrosyan (talk) 23:28, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

The Guiana's in South America
Dutch is the official language in Suriname (the most widely spoken language Sranan Tongo should considered to be a creole language) and English is the official language in Guyana. These are considerable germanic language areas not shown on the map.

Hello
Uploaded File:Languenglexpandedtest.jpg, for making your own refinements to this image. I have no intent to do it and no personal need for an image this big. There are some potential additions in the names (some quite controversial) and the colors are all wrong. Some potentially useful info maybe found @ []. To those "copyright violation"-taggers, there's probably not one single pixel in the image I haven't changed. Dreg743 (talk) 09:10, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

Innaccurate
this map is inaccurate, atleast in atlantic canada new brunswick speaks around 50% french and 50% english, approximately...so i suppose that it works there, but nova scotia and PEI are all around 90% english speaking. someone please fix this. 142.177.61.90 (talk) 23:42, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

i see this has already been addressed. newfoundland+cape breton are english/germanic aswell. on top of that a large portion of the french language spoken is acadian. acadian is often mashed up french and english, especially in an informal dialect 142.177.61.90 (talk) 23:46, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

language family map
Hmm, this is an interesting map, but it's not really what I want from a language family map... Does anyone know of a map on wikipedia that is more like this: http://au.encarta.msn.com/media_102662698/language_families_of_the_world.html Key point being that you can see the language families (bonus points for subfamilies such as slavic vs. germanic being in different shades of a main color for each language family)... ? Brianski (talk) 01:07, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

Puerto Rico green??
Why is Puerto Rico colored as germanic when its primary language it's Spanish, therefore should be colored as romance. Xocolata1 (talk) 20:10, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
 * PR is a part of the United States, so apparently it was set to English. WhisperToMe (talk) 16:38, 10 November 2009 (UTC)

Estonia light yellow
Estonian is Uralic, not Baltic. Someone, please fix that. Lo mismo que le habeis hecho a los puertorriqueños. Que alguien lo arregle leches. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.152.149.188 (talk) 20:21, 10 October 2009 (UTC)