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It is really difficult to determine what the partial (striped) languages are. The colors are too similar, and the lines are too thin to be possible to tell exactly what their color is (due to the visual bleed from the neighboring color fields) - Eudoxie (talk) 11:49, 12 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Dutch and papiamento

Papiamento is not spoken in Suriname, only on Curaçao, Bonaire and Aruba, (Dutch Antilles). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.249.26.75 (talk) 00:18, 17 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Please remove papiamento. It is not spoken in Suriname, only on Curaçao, Bonaire and Aruba and not by the full population. Everyone who speaks it is bilingual with Dutch. Keeping it like this is the same as making green "Portuguese and German" in stead of "Portuguese", because in Brazil in some area's they speak German as well. Or the same as adding Haitian Creole to French. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.82.146.255 (talk) 05:50, 16 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Danish

While Greenlandic is the first language of almost all Greenlanders, there are a few thousand people who speak Danish as a first language, and almost everyone speaks Danish as a second language. I'm sure that a lot of these languages (Sioux and the New York Dutch, for example) are second languages as well, so shouldn't Danish be added and drawn on to Greenland? - Oisín^(Message) 11:19, 14 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You mean Pennsylvania Dutch, the variant of Low German spoken by the Amish and Mennonite communities in the Northeast US. The Pennsdeutsch has greatly declined in usage along with German was once the second most spoken language in the USA before the US entry in World War I (1917). German once had co-official use as a second language in parts of Pennsylvania until the 1940's, but never in the same extent Spanish was in Texas or California and French (Cajun) had in Louisiana. + 71.102.12.55 (talk) 06:34, 26 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Falkland Islands

The Falkland Islands are shown as Spanish speaking rather than English speaking. Is this an error based on ignorance or is it politically motivated? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.248.193.121 (talk) 17:04, 4 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

This is correct, the Falklands are English-speaking. But, really, this map is hilarious. The large Sioux-speaking region is particularly hilarious. TuckerResearch (talk) 03:22, 26 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

A technical error, should be repaired to indicate English is the official language of the British crown colony, but the information must come from Argentina whom continue to claim the islands as their territory. But the Welsh language is spoken by residents of towns like Rawson and Trelew, the legacy of late 19th century Welsh settlement of Argentina, esp. in the Chubut and Santa Cruz provinces. Although the descendants are Spanish dominant in language, the Welsh tongue continues to be heard in their communities. + 71.102.12.55 (talk) 06:29, 26 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Brazil, Uruguay, Bolivia

And the "influence" of Spanish apears in Southern Brazil in this "map", as in its frontiers, but not the influence of the Portuguese in the frontiers of spanish-speaking countries, specialy in East Bolivia - Santa Cruz. In Uruguay as exemple, Portuguese language influence is huge, historical huge influence also of the Portuguese language on the population of Uruguay by historical very known reasons. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.138.144.230 (talk) 23:11, 2 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Important to know about large-scale immigration in South America: esp. Argentina, Uruguay and southern Brazil introduced European cultures and languages besides Spanish or Portuguese in the late 19th and early 20th century. Not a surprise to travel in Buenos Aires and Sao Paulo to discover Italian, German, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, Greek, Arabic by Lebanese and Syrians, and even Chinese or Japanese are spoken in districts or sections in these cities. + 71.102.12.55 (talk) 06:41, 26 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hawaii

What are doing the Hawaiian Islands and Hawaiian language on this map?, they must be moved to Oceania. --Jcmenal (talk) 21:30, 6 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Nope, they are a state among the 50 states compromised of the USA. Hawaii has succeeded in the preservation of the native Hawaiian language. Also the co-official usage of several Alaskan Native languages (i.e. Aleut, Inunvik and Yupik) in the late 20th century throughout the state of Alaska. + 71.102.12.55 (talk) 06:36, 26 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It doesn't matter that Hawaii is a territory of the United States. Hawaii isn't located in the Americas (Hawaii is part of Oceania), so it shouldn't be on a map depicting "Languages spoken in the Americas." Guam is a U.S. territory as well, but it (correctly) isn't shown on the map, and you would never see French Guiana on a map of "Languages spoken in Europe." --50.46.252.252 (talk) 23:02, 27 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

About the map

The languages of the Americas map is about the largest and second most spoken language in a given area. They are the 20 most common languages spoken in the Americas, including recognized co-official languages and minority language speaking areas. There are actually very few Sioux, Navajo, Apache and Cherokee speakers left than in pre-Columbian times, but are enjoying a linguistic revival and possibly the resurgence of tribal governments using them in addition to English as part of the USA. Also to note the Americas has 500 indigenous languages (most are generally endangered if not put into extinction by now), plus 200 immigrant languages introduced to the Americas from German and Italian (i.e. Veneto and Plattsdetusch) to Hakka, Mandarin or Fujian Chinese and Punjabi or Hindustani (most notably in the Guianas). + 71.102.12.55 (talk) 06:24, 26 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Trinidad

The language spoken in Trinidad is English. The map incorrectly indicates that it is Spanish. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.213.131.203 (talk) 01:54, 15 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]