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The colours in this image should be changed so as to be more different and therefore more easily recognisable and not as confusing.

See the talk page for a better version -- 86.29.244.179 ( talk) 13:36, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

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This file is from the English Wikipedia. It represents the largest uncontroversial linguistic macrofamilies using the colour scheme from en:Wikipedia:WikiProject Languages. (Thus, Japanese and Korean are represented as language isolates, despite various contested theories linking them to other families or each other.)

Due to the lack of sourcing and the inherent imprecision of the Robinson projection, this should be taken as a somewhat impressionistic representation.

The legend's font is Arial 11.

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Pending

  • Remove remaining paraphyletic groups
    • Review validity of Altaic grouping, per de:Bild Diskussion:Sprachfamilien der Welt (Wikipedia Farben).png#Neue Version
  • Mark New Zealand as entirely indo-european, per en:Image talk:Human Language Families (wikicolors).png#Māori language.

Version history

  • On 31 October 2004, de:Bild:Sprachen der Welt.png was created by de:Benutzer:Stern who used the map template Image:BlankMap-World.png by en:User:Vardion.
  • On 13 February 2005, it was redrawn by en:User:Industrius as en:Image:Human Language Families Map.PNG
  • On 8 June 2005, en:User:Peter Farago recolored it as en:Image:Human Language Families Map (Wikipedia Colors .PNG using the language family colour codes from en:Wikipedia:WikiProject Languages and reducing the language families represented to the largest uncontroversial macrofamilies.
  • On 26 October 2005, en:User:Ishwar added the Nadene family with its color and added colour specks for the Hopi, Havasupai, Western Apache, Choctaw, Cherokee, Mescalero, Zuni, Keres, Sioux languages. (although these are hardly visible.)
  • On 9 November 2005, en:User:Peter Farago corrected errors in Hainan and Taiwan, pointed out by en:User:ran on en:Image talk:Human_Language_Families_Map_(Wikipedia_Colors_.PNG; corrected error in Malta; replaced the paraphyletic "Australian languages" group with the well-attested Pama-Nyungan family (redrawn after this source), marking the non-Pama-Nyungan languages as isolates; and recolored Greenland and the Queen Elizabeth Islands to indicate that they are uninhabited, not language isolates.
  • On 17 January 2006, de:Benutzer:Danyalov altered the boundaries of the Turkish and Azerbaijani regions, following a discussion on de:Bild Diskussion:Sprachfamilien der Welt (Wikipedia Farben).png.
  • On 21 June 2006, es:Usuario:Satesclop noted Spanish-speaking populations in Equatorial Guinea and the Canary Islands, and added cross-hatching to indicate Spanish speakers in the interior of South America.

Other Languages

See also the German version:

Sources?

Possibly it is- [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ]

[ ]-- 86.29.242.17 ( talk) 16:54, 23 July 2008 (UTC) [ ] [ ] [ ]-- Mike A Mitchel jr ( talk) 08:45, 24 July 2008 (UTC) [ ]] [ ]-- 213.232.79.146 08:55, 24 July 2008 (UTC) [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ]

213.232.79.146 08:56, 24 July 2008 (UTC) 86.29.246.244 07:19, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

[ ]-- 86.29.242.17 16:52, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

An error?

I can't see the Basque language in Northern Spain any more, so I reverted it to remove the foggyness/delition of the Baques.-- 213.232.79.149 08:52, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

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File history

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Date/Time Dimensions User Comment
current 03:38, 30 May 2008 800×380 (95 KB) Kayrat Tekebayev (small but readable)
12:13, 29 May 2008 1,339×636 (47 KB) Julo (Reverted to version as of 01:04, 4 October 2007 by Jerrypp772000; version of Solestin is unreadable (800x380px))
06:09, 29 May 2008 800×380 (95 KB) Solestin ({{Information |Description={{en|1=recolour}} |Source=1 |Author=Stern |Date= |Permission= |other_versions= }} {{ImageUpload|full}})
05:58, 29 May 2008 800×380 (95 KB) Solestin ({{Information |Description={{en|1=as per discussion regarding Australia}} |Source=Own work by uploader |Author= Solestin |Date=29/5 |Permission= |other_versions= }} {{ImageUpload|full}})
01:04, 4 October 2007 1,339×636 (47 KB) Jerrypp772000
16:51, 21 June 2006 1,339×636 (47 KB) Satesclop (+Canary Islands (Spain))
16:47, 21 June 2006 1,339×636 (47 KB) Satesclop
16:44, 21 June 2006 1,339×636 (47 KB) Satesclop
13:45, 17 January 2006 1,339×636 (47 KB) Danyalov
13:41, 17 January 2006 1,339×636 (35 KB) Danyalov
07:17, 10 November 2005 1,339×636 (22 KB) Peter Farago (Fix small error in Australia)
06:49, 10 November 2005 1,339×636 (18 KB) Peter Farago
00:44, 9 November 2005 1,339×636 (35 KB) Ishwar
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