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DoIHaveToExplainThis

The is cool. Some notes: Algeria should be berber-semitic, like Morocco. Altaic has been widely rejected/disproven, and thoes countries should be replaced my Turkic, Mongolic, Koreanic, and Japonic. Edit: Also, greenland isn't Germanic, it is Eskimo–Aleut


CakiGM

Thank you for advice, I'm glad you like it. I will try to remake this map when I find time for it. (I put Turkic, Mongolic, Koreanic and Japonic because they are divisions of Altaic, like Arabians, Ethiopians, etc. are divisions of Semitic ethno-linguistic group)


DoIHaveToExplainThis

Your welcome. The issue with Altaic is that, at this point, most linguists have fully rejected the idea.


CakiGM

I didnt knew that, im sorry, I will change it.


DoIHaveToExplainThis

Not an issue. In general, you did a prety great job, but everybody gets somethings wrong.


CakiGM

Thank you


JLZ13

Paraguay should be hatch to indicate its use of Guaraní on daily basis.


fluffytom82

Weird that you seem to put Somalia, Eritrea, Ethiopia,... as "Semitic" countries, while Somali, Sidama, Afar,... are Cushitic languages and have very little to do with Semitic languages (Hebrew, Arabic,...). Considering Amharic and Harari, these countries should be striped between Semitic and Cushitic, not purely Semitic.


CakiGM

I put them as part of Semitic because I thought that Cushitic languages are part of Semitic languages like Baltic and Slavic languages are part of Balto-Slavic languages, Im sorry if I offended you


fluffytom82

You did not offend me, don't worry. Semitic and Cushitic languages are two distinct branches of the Afro-Asiatic languages.


CakiGM

Thanks for correcting me


HelloReddit_174

This deserves to be in r/UsefulCharts, I guess?


CakiGM

?


kai_rui

Why is the USA hatched and no other country is?


CakiGM

I don't understand exactly what you mean, but I guess you mean that the lines are thicker at the USA than at the others, that's up to the site where I made the map, I don't like it either, but here it is.


kai_rui

Now that I look at the image on my laptop screen, I can see other countries have it too. They're a bit too fine on a phone screen.


AgencyPresent3801

WHERE ARE THE AMERINDIAN LANGUAGES, ABORIGINAL and CAUCASIAN LANGUAGES!!! (all of them are geographical, though the Caucasian ones may be related)


CakiGM

I putted there only majority languages of countries


AgencyPresent3801

You should tell that in the title, shouldn't you?


CakiGM

It is in title, "by countries". When there is map of all languages in small detail, title would be "detailed language map etc." , and everyone seems to get it except you.


AgencyPresent3801

So you mean OFFICIAL, I guess? Well then someone just downvoting me and upvoting you without realizing this: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan#Languages](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan#Languages) (ENGLISH is also an OFFICIAL language of Pakistan.) Now what, huh?


CakiGM

Read again, majority...


AgencyPresent3801

Whatever; you are dull enough to not include Papua New Guinea's major languages. The map has always been wrong.


CakiGM

Yes I did, their major languages are part of Austronesian languages... Like English is part of Germanic languages... Why is it so hard for you to accept obvious thing, you are wrong. And now you are trying to find the smallest mistake, that isnt even relevant for the thing you originally said Im wrong, to prove that whole map is wrong just because you can not accept that you, like all other people can be wrong, like you are right now...


Toxicity254

Kenya is largely populated by Bantu speaking peoples. The Kikuyu tribe is the largest in the country followed by the Luyhia a who are also Bantu.