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No. 67
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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?
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