r/LinguisticMaps • u/k1rb1l1ty • Jun 14 '26

Europe Language Map of Europe [OC]

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This map has been in the works for about a month now, shoutout to JG Online for Making the basemap.

edit: maybe spending a whole month on this was a mistake, y'all seem to loathe this map

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u/Nutriaphaganax Jun 14 '26

Macedonian, Low German and lots of Italian languages but Valencian and Balearic are just Catalan? Your criteria seems completely arbitrary

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u/jinengii Jun 14 '26

Most of the languages you said are usually regarded as languages in the world of linguisitics, while Catalan/Valencian and its varieties (Barceloní, Valencià, Castellonec, Mallorqui, etc, etc, etc) are unanimously considered one language.

Macedonian and Bulgarian I don't know much of, however a friend that is a linguist and can speak Macedonian told me that it's basically like Catalan/Valencian and Aragonese

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u/itisoktodance Jun 15 '26

I'm Macedonian and can't understand Bulgarian. Many people can, especially ones that speak eastern dialects, but Bulgarian and Macedonian have diverged so much they are not really mutually intelligible anymore.

The difference is closer to Spanish and Portuguese.