Languages in europe spoken by a majority. For the rromani languages see this map.
Note that the terms language and dialect are not mutually exclusive and some of the languages shown in the map may be considered dialects of others.
Linguistic map of europe
. Linguistic maps of europe africa america oceania asia and basque country. Most languages of europe belong to the indo european language family out of a total european population of 744 million as of 2018 some 94 are native speakers of an indo european language. This linguistic map paints an alternative map of europe displaying the language families that populate the continent and the lexical distance between the languages. La langue rromani en europe structure dialectale.According to the mainstream linguistic classification in europe there are 6 major indo european language families namely romance slavic germanic baltic celtic and hellenic alongside a non indo european family specifically the finno ugric linguistic branch which comprises hungarian finnish and. According to the german monograph minderheitenrechte in europa co edited by pan and pfeil 2002 there are 87 distinct indigenous peoples of. We provide useful and practical information for thousands languages displayed on specific geographic areas. Language map of europe in native tongues.
Within indo european the three largest phyla are romance germanic and slavic with more than 200 million speakers each between them accounting for close to 90 of europeans. You can click on the map above to get a visual relationship of the languages and the countries they are attached to. There is a really similar map here which gives this one some context. 1310 of la terra trattato popolare di geografia universale per g.
The following map shows the language families of europe distinguished by colour and languages within those families. It s titled the people of europe and has a legend indicating races from a 1914 german perspective of course. Below are represented 10 distinct maps which showcase the languages spoken in europe. Priority is given to regional dialects and minority languages.
We recognise that the term official language can be somewhat debated. The indigenous peoples of europe are the focus of european ethnology the field of anthropology related to the various indigenous groups that reside in the nations of europe groups may be defined by common genetic ancestry common language or both. Media in category linguistic maps of europe the following 192 files are in this category out of 192 total. So what we have put together here is a map of the most spoken official language of the countries of europe.
Unlike the op map it doesn t have scandinavia and the estonians chopped off. Marinelli ed altri scienziati italiani etc. The closer that distance the. Map of the languages of europe.
