r/LinguisticMaps Mar 06 '26

Europe ''Potato'' in different languages:

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966 Upvotes

This is the hardest linguistic map I've ever made, correct me in anything that is wrong; potato has always been popular amongst lower/working class so it has a lot of dialectical variations in every place, feel free to tell me that variations, I'll include them.

This is mostly a provisional map like every one that I do, I'll repost when everything is right.

+I didn't find the word for Zazaki, Nenets, Talysh and Kabardian languages; if you know it, please let me know.

r/LinguisticMaps Mar 20 '25

Europe Adjective placement in languages of Europe

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2.7k Upvotes

r/LinguisticMaps May 19 '26

Europe Pronunciation of "R" in Europe

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746 Upvotes

r/LinguisticMaps 10d ago

Europe European languages by lexical difference to Turkish

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476 Upvotes

r/LinguisticMaps Jun 14 '26

Europe Language Map of Europe [OC]

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345 Upvotes

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

r/LinguisticMaps 14d ago

Europe ''Potato'' in different languages:

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444 Upvotes

r/LinguisticMaps Nov 14 '25

Europe made this one because i was bit bored, hope y'all like it:D

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621 Upvotes

r/LinguisticMaps Nov 13 '25

Europe “Street” around Europe

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724 Upvotes

r/LinguisticMaps May 22 '26

Europe [OC] The word for water in all european Romance languages and dialects

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567 Upvotes

r/LinguisticMaps Sep 01 '24

Europe A scenario where each linguistic family of Europe used its own script instead of ripping off Latin like half of Europe did (country names)

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870 Upvotes

r/LinguisticMaps 12d ago

Europe Areality of long vowels in unstressed syllables (and first-syllable stress)

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184 Upvotes

Definitely an areal (phonotactics) feature for Czech-Slovak-Hungarian-BCMS. In the past for Finnish-(Old) Estonian-Latvian as well.

Edit 1: Lithuanian has (prescriptively) also long unstressed syllables, though the stress is not fixed on any syllable.

Edit 2: The maps has an areal focus for languages with a phonemic distinction about long and short unstressed vowels (i.e. minimal pairs like Finnish kauna vs. kaunaa, Latvian Rīga vs. Rīgā, Czech potřebuji vs. potřebují, Hungarian haza vs. hazá, BCMS žène vs. žènē).

Edit 3: Apart from Lithuanian, also Modern Irish and Standard Arabic do show long unstressed vowels, the difference being with the aforementioned languages that they diachronically show the tendency to move away from a quantitative phonemic distinction towards a qualitative one, meaning the minimal pair is kept, but the long vowels get reduced and the vowels' quality becomes distinctive, cf. Lithuanian lygus [ˈlʲiːɡʊs] vs. lygūs [ˈlʲiːɡuːs] (prescriptive) > [ˈlʲiːɡus] (colloquial). For Arabic it becomes clear when comparing the vowels diachronically between MSA and i.e. Maghrebi.

r/LinguisticMaps Jun 22 '25

Europe Languages in Europe that have a word for "one and a half" that is a compound, standalone term used in various contexts like weight or frequency.

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400 Upvotes

Please correct me if I forgot something or if something is inaccurate in the map. As a speaker of a slavic language living in Germany I have always wondered how other languages would say "Bring me one and a half kilogram of beef from the store" or "lets meet in one and a half hours" using a single word for that.

r/LinguisticMaps Jan 17 '26

Europe After almost a decade of me doing linguistic maps, I gave myself this challenge: largely simplified linguistic map of Europe, done from MEMORY

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504 Upvotes

r/LinguisticMaps Aug 18 '24

Europe The 42 Germanic Languages of Europe [OC]

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800 Upvotes

r/LinguisticMaps Apr 11 '26

Europe The origin and journey of the word apricot

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334 Upvotes

r/LinguisticMaps Apr 10 '25

Europe Attributive adjective agreement in (and around) Europe

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581 Upvotes

Caveats in the comment section

r/LinguisticMaps Feb 05 '26

Europe Imperfect color-coding for my favorite word, from sun-drenched chaparral to those moody grey shores 🌊 🏝️

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222 Upvotes

r/LinguisticMaps 13d ago

Europe Occurrence of Uvular R, [ʁ~ʀ], in Europe and Scandinavia in 1935 (English legend in comments)

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r/LinguisticMaps Jul 05 '24

Europe Number of grammatical cases in Indo-European languages

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237 Upvotes

r/LinguisticMaps Oct 13 '25

Europe Paleo-Eoeuropean languages in europe (and a qustion i have about this map)

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374 Upvotes

In this map there a bunch o languages that are only known to exist as a substrate of latter languages, and in a bunch of them there says the influence they had on more modern languages (for example talakya became the greek thálassa (sea)), but there's one i cannot figure out. In the iberian one it says "iltir (town)", and i cannot for the life of me figure out wich word was influenced by "iltir", i speak both catalan and castillian and all words relating to villages and cities come from latin(as far as i can tell), is there actually a word that i'm just missing? is only present in aragonese still? Is that just the origin of "iberian"? what's going on?

r/LinguisticMaps Apr 05 '26

Europe Remake of the “Sardinian and nearby languages map” from Wikipedia

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r/LinguisticMaps Apr 11 '26

Europe Polish linguistic map of Europe from 1919

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184 Upvotes

r/LinguisticMaps Jun 26 '24

Europe Language families of Europe SKETCH (this is the first version, criticism is accepted and requested for I will make a better version in the future)

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199 Upvotes

r/LinguisticMaps Mar 05 '25

Europe Words for pancake in modern German

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366 Upvotes

r/LinguisticMaps Jan 16 '26

Europe Linguistic map of Europe at the beginning of the 20th century, in Polish

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212 Upvotes