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General talk[edit]

Well, if anybody has an idea what I've done wrong there, let me know. The pic on the page (e.g. Latin Europe) is changed, but not the larger view. Trigaranus (talk) 16:06, 30 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

U shud paint kosovo and albania in one color. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.96.225.49 (talk) 16:41, 26 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The population of kosovo does not talk slavic, its albanian. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Salihu88 (talk • contribs)

True, that should becme grey. I will see what I can do... Tomeasy_{T C} 14:21, 2 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Great improvement! Trigaranus (talk) 23:07, 21 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Well, pop goes the weasel. The whole idea about Belgium and Switzerland and places like that is that they expressly are not made of one faction only. Montreux has just hosted the International Summit of Francophonic Countries, for example. Is there any reason why it is more intelligent to have each country in one colour only and to present those as if they meant something? If the map has to be useless, fair enough. Bit of a pity though. Trigaranus (talk) 23:00, 23 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, there is. Otherwise it get's too complicated, and such maps are already available in Commons. However, usually these detailed maps do not stand long on the articles because someone always finds some error or at least POV. Admitted, the present map is aggressively simple, but the only one to comply with facts and NPOV policy.

BTW, the map is not completely useless. It indicates if the majority of native speakers of a certain European country is part of one of the three major families and, in case it is, it even shows which of the families.Not more than this, but also not less. I understand that you know more than the map shows, I do as well, but I hope you can understand now why this map limits itself to a very coarse description. Tomeasy_{T C} 23:40, 23 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps your find this map more interesting, or this one, or perhaps this one. I have all of them seen on, e.g., Europe. Sooner or later they were all challenged. I see no reason for trying to improve the present map, while the information would already be available (you can easily imagine that the three maps that I just linked are used to extract the language family information only, but with the geographical detail that you are missing). Tomeasy_{T C} 23:53, 23 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

New lingos added[edit]

Finno-Ugric in Europe is colored yellow. Kartvelian languages in Europe is colored peppermint green . Turkic languages in Europe is colored Orange. Wipsenade (talk) 14:42, 21 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]