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Summary

Description

English: A map showing the approximate present-day distribution of the Indo-European branches within their homelands of Europe and Asia. The following legend is given in the chronological order of the earliest surviving written attestations of each branch:

Albanian [1]

Armenian [2]

Balto-Slavic (Baltic) [3]

Balto-Slavic (Slavic)

Hellenic (Greek) [7]

Italic (includes Romance) [9]

Non-Indo-European languages

Dotted/striped areas indicate where multilingualism is common (more visible upon full enlargement of the map).

Date

16 January 2012

Source

For the names of the branches, see citations in legend (based on "Indo-European Languages". The College of Liberal Arts. UT Austin. 2008.) and "Indo-European languages" from Britannica.com.

The distribution is essentially and approximately based on the map "Indo-European languages – Approximate locations of Indo-European languages in contemporary Eurasia" from Britannica.com, although with the following minor modifications:

The two articles "Balto-Slavic languages" and "Indo-Iranian languages" from Britannica.com stress the lack of scholarly consensus on these branches. That is, for the former, whether Baltic and Slavic developed from a common ancestral language, or that the similarities are the result of parallel development and of mutual influence during a long period of contact. To cater for both scholarly viewpoints, this map shows Baltic and Slavic with two distinct shades of green under "Balto-Slavic". For the latter, the dispute is whether the Indo-Iranian languages include just the Iranian and Indo-Aryan (or, Indic) language groups, or Nūristānī and Bangani too. To prevent disagreement (and also because this map only represents the primary branches of Indo-European), all of Indo-Iranian is represented with one shade.

The article "Romance languages" from Britannica.com states that the Romance languages form "a subgroup of the Italic branch of the Indo-European language family".

It should be noted that this map is only approximative and simplified, and glosses over some multilingual areas (particularly in eastern Russia, which is difficult to represent accurately). For some areas, more regional maps have been used as sources for greater accuracy, namely "Languages of Switzerland" from Ethnologue.com, "Russia ethnic plurality" from Freelang.net, "Major ethnic groups in Central Asia" from Globalsecurity.org, and "South Asian Language Families" from "Language families and branches, languages and dialects in A Historical Atlas of South Asia". Oxford University Press. New York 1992.

Author

Hayden120

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	03:43, 26 September 2022	2,934 × 2,938 (2.16 MB)	Alexikoua	minor fixes
	15:58, 30 March 2022	2,934 × 2,938 (1.74 MB)	Whoop whoop pull up	Whoops, wrong file!
	15:37, 30 March 2022	2,048 × 2,048 (980 KB)	Whoop whoop pull up	Misc fixes (Russian minority in Svalbard & Israel, Slovenian in SE Carinthia, Greek in N Epirus, Aromanians/Megleno-Romanians, Swedish essentially extinct in Estonia, etc.
	09:37, 22 December 2021	2,934 × 2,938 (1.74 MB)	Ahmet Q.	Reverted to version as of 19:55, 23 August 2021 (UTC)seek consensus for your changes
	20:40, 25 November 2021	2,934 × 2,938 (2.16 MB)	Alexikoua	rv elimination of Greek minority in Albania
	19:55, 23 August 2021	2,934 × 2,938 (1.74 MB)	Ahmet Q.	Rv false edit summary. Overrepresentation of Greeks in Turkey, Albania and Ukraine. Unexplained removal of Romanian in Serbia. Overall deterioration of the original file. Seek consensus for your changes.
	16:16, 7 August 2021	2,934 × 2,938 (2.16 MB)	Demetrios1993	Addition of Arbereshe linguistic minority in Sicily. Addition of Serbian, Bosnian, and Gorani linguistic minorities in Kosovo. Addition of Greek linguistic minorities in Italy, Albania, Turkey, and Ukraine. Including some other minor corrections.
	17:00, 19 November 2020	2,934 × 2,938 (1.74 MB)	Golden	update Armenian
	18:42, 31 March 2018	1,479 × 1,479 (574 KB)	Maphobbyist	Removed area that exactly corresponds to the non-Indo European Lezgi linguistic area.
	21:37, 6 September 2016	1,479 × 1,479 (620 KB)	Rob984	Georgia and Azerbaijan aren't majority multilingual. Older generations speak Russian from the Soviet era but now English is taught mainly in place of Russian. More people speak English in Finland, yet that isn't coloured. Also corrections to Celtic are...