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<HTML> <HEAD><TITLE>The sci.lang FAQ: Map</TITLE></HEAD> <BODY bgcolor="#ffffff" TEXT="#000000"> <P><A HREF="lang8.html">[Classification]</A> <A HREF="langfaq.html">[Index]</A> <HR> <H3>The Indo-European Family</H3> <P><IMG Align=Bottom SRC="ielang.gif"> <P><H3>Non-Indo-European Families</H3> <P><IMG Align=Bottom SRC="nonielng.gif"> <P>New World families are based on the maps found in the <CITE>Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language</CITE>, which says that they represent contemporary (not, say, pre-Columbian) language usage. I am a bit skeptical about this; there's probably a lot more Chinese spoken in Ohio than Algonquian. Compare to the Indo-European map to see where Spanish, English, French, and Portuguese are <I>not</I> spoken. Also be aware that many of these classifications are still quite controversial. <P>Old World families are based on the <CITE>Oxford World Atlas</CITE> and other sources, but attempt to use the same categories as in Scott DeLancey's classification for the FAQ. <P>Dividing the world's languages into two maps allows us to indicate some of the overlapping language areas of the world (e.g. Altaic and Indo-European in Siberia), but non-IE languages overlap too; a particularly mottled area is Southeast Asia. <P>There are many New Guinean language families; some linguists group them all together as "Papuan" but this too is controversial. There are 26 families of Australian languages; the largest is Pama-Nyungan. <H6>Cartography by Mark Rosenfelder (whose eyes still hurt)</H6> <P><A HREF="lang8.html">[Classification]</A> <A HREF="langfaq.html">[Index]</A> </BODY> </HTML>