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Summary

Description

Map of main European languages simplified by following national borders in many cases. The map does not reflect the fact that many regions are bilingual, officially and/or in practice. In some cases, the area indicated for a language reflects where some of its speakers live but not necessarily where they form the majority of the population.

Date

22 November 2008 (original upload date)

Source

Own work Sources for data:

Belarusian (bilingual distribution of Belarusian and Russian): Belarus Census 2009
German: File:German standard varieties.png distribution after 1950 (after displacement of ethnic Germans from Poland/Bohemia), German-speaking minorities in Alsace, Hungary, Romania, Poland not indicated
Rumansh (Switzerland) File:Swiss Census 2000
Slovenian: File:Slovenian language map.png Terence R. Carlton, Introduction to the Phonological History of the Slavic Languages 1990, 380-81, minorities in Italy/Austria not indicated
Ukrainian: File:UkraineNativeLanguagesCensus2001detailed.PNG

Author

See below. / [edit]
By language codes: SVG, jpg, png; English: SVG , simplified SVG , rectified PNG ; Esperanto 1 , 2 , 3 , français , македонски , suomi العربية

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	18:54, 6 July 2023	1,541 × 1,253 (2.25 MB)	Petnog	Almost no one speaks only mirandese (and either way, it's not spanish). Also, barranquenho is a portuguese dialect, despite having spanish influence
	11:26, 9 February 2022	1,541 × 1,253 (2.25 MB)	Parodper	Fixed Galician borders
	03:08, 21 March 2021	1,541 × 1,253 (2.25 MB)	YoungstownToast	Reverted to version as of 14:40, 8 March 2019 (UTC). Incorrect
	13:17, 10 January 2020	1,541 × 1,253 (2.28 MB)	ZxcvU	More accurate borders of Ukrainian.
	14:40, 8 March 2019	1,541 × 1,253 (2.25 MB)	NikNaks	Revert to true SVG; if you wish to remove content or make edits, please do so in Inkscape or another vector editor, do not upload a PNG in an SVG wrapper
	12:15, 9 February 2019	1,420 × 1,320 (990 KB)	A2D2	Reverted to version as of 22:30, 23 February 2017 (UTC) This file is only about the languages in Europe.
	20:33, 11 January 2019	1,541 × 1,253 (2.25 MB)	Kun Kipcsak	Added the Hungarian speakers from romanian Moldova > the Csango speech of north and south (Săbăoani and Pustiana; Faraoani), also with hungarian of Csangos of Ghimeș, Bacău.
	00:06, 27 March 2018	1,541 × 1,253 (2.25 MB)	R9tgokunks	tweaking Romance languages in France & Italy per File:Romance_20c_en.png and File:Romance_languages.png
	11:11, 21 December 2017	1,541 × 1,253 (2.29 MB)	DiaouligRu	Added Breton speaking populations according to File:Indo-European_languages_in_Europe.png, File:Percentage_of_breton_speakers_in_the_breton_countries_in_2004.png and File:Image-Languages-Europe.png.
	09:45, 24 February 2017	1,600 × 1,320 (2.28 MB)	Scooter20	Please remake your changes in SVG not bitmap as there is a huge drop in quality after your changes. Also not sure about removing adjacent or "sometimes included in Europe" countries from the map.