• LANGUAGE FAMILY MAPS
• WORLD
• AFRICA
• EURASIA
  • Europe
    
  • Caucasus
  • Middle East
  • South Asia
  • South East Asia
• OCEANIA
• AUSTRALIA
• NORTH AMERICA
• CENTRAL AMERICA
• SOUTH AMERICA
• LANGUAGE WAYPOINTS

• TYPOLOGICAL MAPS by Matthew Dryer
• POLITICAL & PHYSICAL MAPS
• MAP CREATION SITES
• HISTORICAL MAPS
• SOME GEOGRAPHY PROJECTS

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• LANGUAGE MAPS

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WORLD
• Linguistic families around the globe by Mark Rosenfelder
A collection of language families maps
• Language Famillies of the World by Dr. C. George Boeree, Shippensburg University.   (I do not necessarily agree with the classification adopted here; especially not with the part where a Caucasian family is discussed. But the maps are generally informative)
AFRICA
• Lingusitic Map of Africa (from SOAS Language Mapping project)
• A Simplified Linguistic Map of Africa
• Africa: Linguistic Phyla by Michael Cysouw
• African Linguistic Maps provided by the Comparative Bantu Online Dictionary (CBOLD) Project at UC Berkeley
• Africa: atlas
• A Map of Oromo dialects/languages in Ethiopia and Kenya from A Grammar of Boraana Oromo by Harry Stroomer (1995. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag).
• Sarufi or the language of Zanzibar and Upemba
EURASIA
• Map of the Language Families of Europe by Matthew Dryer (small version)
• Map of the Language Families of Europe by Matthew Dryer (large version)
• Map of Subfamilies of Indo-European in Europe by Matthew Dryer
• Indo-European languages tree together with clickable maps by Cyril Babaev
(currently not working; I need to finish the diss before I can do some more serious searching and restoring. THe same applies to the link below.)
• Indo-European historical and linguistic maps
• Ethno-linguistic map of Europe before World War I
• Ethno-linguistic map of Europe after World War I
• Language map of Belgium
• Language map of Friesland
• What is the Breton Language, a historical map of the Breton language
• Language Map of Ancient Italy

Romance Languages

• Orbis Latinus: Maps and descriptions of a lot of Romance Languages can be found here.
• A Map and other info on Veneto
• Sardinian dialects by Guido Mensch.
• Some isogloss maps of Galician dialects

Languages in the Caucasus Region

• Map of Language Families in Caucasus Region by Matthew Dryer
• The Languages of the Caucasus. One of the best linguistic maps of the Caucasus I have seen so far.
• Ethno-linguistic map of the languages of the Caucasus region (from the University of Texas map collection)
• The Languages of Tajikistan by Iraj Bashiri. Here is a paper, The Languages of Tajikistan in Perspective, by the same author.
• A Map of Dagestanian languages by Yurij Korjakov (The labels and legend are in Russian written with the Cyrillic alphabet)

Languages in the Middle East

• Linguistic map of the Middle East
(The map was originally found at Standford but they moved the link. I am using a backup copy here.)
• Semitic languages: map of their geographical distribution in their original homelands
• A Map of Old Iranian languages

Languages in South Asia

• Map of Language Families in South Asia by Matthew Dryer
• India (the web page titles were used here)
• Linguistic Map of India
• Languages of India The original was moved somewhere so I am using a backup copy here.

Languages in South East Asia

• Vietnam
  • Ethno-Linguistic Distribution Maps of Northern Viet Nam
  • Map of the distribution of Tay-Thai, Hmong-Dao and Tibeto-Burman in Vietnam.
  • Map of the distribution of Mon-Khmer and Austronesian in Vietnam.
• Chinese Linguistic Groups
(from the map collection of UT Austin)
OCEANIA
• Major languages of the Philippines by Carl Rubino (the page was moved so my own backup copy is shown here)
• Manus Province Language Map (Admiralty Islands, Papua New Guinea)
• Linguistic map of Timor Island, Indonesia
AUSTRALIA
• Aboriginal Languages of Arnhem Land (Northern Territory, Australia, here is a map)
NORTH AMERICA
• The Native languages of the North pacific area a very nice map showing the distribution of language families in Eastern Siberia and the North West of the American continent
• A Collection of maps of Native American precontact cultures and languages
• Linguistic Distribution of American Indians as of 1896
• Map of Language Families of continental U.S. by Matthew Dryer (small version)
• Map of Language Families of continental U.S. by Matthew Dryer (large version)
• Map of Language Families of Pacific Northwest by Matthew Dryer
• First Nations of Canada. Maps and other info.
• First Nations of British Columbia.
• Map of Language Families of Canada and Alaska by Matthew Dryer
• Native Languages of Alaska from Alaska Native Language Center Web site
• Plains Nations
• Yukon language Map; Maps of the Yukon and Old Crow territories in the context of North America are here
• Linguistic Atlas of the Middle and South Atlantic States
• The Hopi Indians
• Map of Language Families of California by Matthew Dryer
• California Native American Languages Map (well, in days of yore).

A very nice clickable map with historical info about the different tribes linked to the mapped language groups.
• Language Map of the Kawaiisu and their neighbors
CENTRAL AMERICA
• Maya peoples: geography and languages. The map is at the beginning of the page. A tree classification of Mayan languages is at the end.
  
• Linguistic Map of Oaxaca at the Time of the Spanish Conquest
SOUTH AMERICA
• Linguistic Map of South America
• Atlas of the Native languages of South America by Östen Dahl
• Amazonian languages
LANGUAGE WAYPOINTS
The files below contain geographical coordinates of locations where specific languages are spoken. The locations were taken either from the Ethonologue or the grammar of the language in question. Location coordinates come the GeoNet Nameservers: Geonet for non-US place names and Geonet for US place names. The languages listed count around 180. Some of them are listed with more than one location as I wasn't sure which of all listed locations would be the principal one. All feedback about possible mistakes is very welcome.
• Language waypoints in plain US ASCII
  
• Language waypoints formatted for use by MacGPS Pro
• Language waypoints formatted for plotting maps with Versamap for Windows.
• Matthew Dryer's database of language locations
• POLITICAL AND PHYSICAL MAPS
• Online maps from UT Austin Ready made maps - can be viewed online or downloaded.
• Online maps Apart from the map collection, maps of specific smaller areas can be created on the fly
• Geonet name server Gives geographic info such as coordinates, location, kind etc for non-US place names.
• Geographic name server Provides the info above for US place names. Detailed maps can be generated in several formats.
• Cartographic reference resources Various cartography notions and terms are explained here.
• Digital chart of the world. from Penn State University Library. Maps of individual countries can be generated online or downloaded in ArcView, GIF or postscript format. Can be a little slow especially if more than 2 layers are selected for drawing.
• AskAsia Map & Timeline Library (nice political maps; why Australia is included remains a mystery to me)
• MAP CREATION SITES
• Map Machine from National Geographic.
• Interactive Mapping Center from Washington State University
• Geoscience Interactive Databases (v1.0) -- Cornell University/INSTOC Online Map creation program
• Online map creation

from kk+with - digital cartography
• HISTORICAL MAPS
• Historical Maps. The Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection. The University of Texas at Austin
• Ancient/Classical History: Maps
• Maps of the Classical Greek and Roman World
• A collection of New World Maps

 
• SOME GEOGRAPHY PROJECTS
• Atlas of the Languages of the World
• A crash course in cultural geography with special reference to Canada
• Language Mapping Project
• The Design of the Data-base RTFL and its Use: An Example of the Phonetic / Phonological Data-base for the Geographical Study of Chinese Dialects, an abstract by Ray Iwata, Shizuoka University.

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