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58 No. 58
If you need real help on a board that isn't dead go to reddit.com/r/languagelearning
>> No. 59
After glancing through some of those threads, that is probably the last place that somebody should go to who wants real advice from knowledgeable people.
>> No. 60
But I suspected as much, based on how much of "europeanlangs.gif" is inaccurate.
>> No. 63
>>60
Any examples? As far as I am concerned the map needs overlaps but that would make it an unreadable clusterfuck. It is missing a bunch of languages though. Apparently people don't speak in Finland.
>> No. 67
>>63
The map seems to confuse somewhat scarcely spoken "native" regional languages with languages that are actually spoken from day to day. Languages like Welsh, Gaelic, Irish, Breton, Occitan, Sardinian, and Walloon are all barely spoken anymore and while they might have some people who speak them in the regions on the map, 100% of the people in those regions will know the more common language of their country.

Corsica also does not speak Italian commonly, some people speak on offshoot called Corsican, and like all people who live in Sardinia speak Italian, the most common language of the people who live in Corsica is French.

The Germans are more dialects than totally separate languages. They are more distinct than other dialect distinctions, but calling them separate languages altogether is a bit of a stretch.

The map isn't totally wrong, but it should be labelled more "European Regional Languages" or something. Not to mention all the holes. I mean, is it that hard to figure out what people in Hungary, Finland, and Turkey speak?
>> No. 69
>>63
Speaking is considered too familiar and impolite in Finland.

SAGE has been used.
>> No. 72
>>63
It looks like a map of IE languages, which would be why Finnish, Hungarian, Turkish, and Basque aren't on there.
>> No. 87
>>67
The holes are for non indo european languages, bro.
>> No. 88
>>72
>>87
Then perhaps they should label the chart correctly... or at all, would be nice. It's just not terribly informative. It would be more helpful to show a map of what the majority of people speak in each region, because that might actually have a use if someone is traveling there.
>> No. 91
>>88
If you want to make a different map, then do some fucking research and make one. If you want to rename this map, then you may at your leisure save it to disk and rename the file whatever you like. Triple sage.

SAGE has been used.


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