A link to Richard Strand's map of Nuristan
, which contains previously unpublished material on the linguistics and ethnography of
Nuristân and neighboring regions, collected and analyzed by Richard F. Strand since 1967.
A map
of Burmese ethnic groups and languages:
A map of the former Yugoslavia, depicting the distribution of Croatian and Serbian
varieties of language and dialect:
Another map of the former Yugoslavia, showing various languages.
A map showing the distribution of Anglo-Saxons in Britain in early times.
A map showing distribution of various ethno-linguistic groups in CAmbodia in 1972:
Another map of Caucasian languages:
A map of Croatian dialects:
Another map of Yugoslavian languages/dialects:
Another Caucasian language map:
A map of Switzerland:
A map showing French expansion into previously non-French territory in the early
1600's.
A map showing the distribution of "sh" in various low-German dialects, and their
diminishing distribution in "Dutch" territory.
A key to the Limburg map:
Map of former Yugoslavia in 1998:
Croatian-Serbian map:
And a key to the above:
Another map of South Asian languages:
Not sure what this one is:
Another map of former Yugoslavia:
A map of Indian languages, by state:
Another map of India, ca. 1973:
A map of ethno-linguistic groups in "Indo-China": Laos, Vietnam, and Cambodia:
A map depicting Indonesia's ethnic groups:
Another map depicting Indonesia's ethnic groups:
A map depicting languages spoken in India circa 1893:
A map of Low German dialects and languages:
A map of Nepal's ethnic groups and languages:
A map showing the distribution of language and ethnicity in Pakistan ca. 1973:
A map showing ethnicity and language in (South) Vietnam in 1972:
Map of Sri Lanka languages:
Map of Sri Lanka showing ethnicity/language contrasted with population density
and landuse/economic activity;
A map showing distribution of language groups in Thailand:
Map of Indian "princely states" at
Independence. Light areas are "British India" (under direct control of Britain), while
darker areas are the princely states, with internal self-rule, but pledging fealty to the
"King-Emperor".
Maps in the Dictionary of American Regional English
Atlas of the World's Languages published by Routledge
First Peoples Heritage Language Culture Council, British Columbia
(-fphlcc.ca)
Korjakov, Ju. B. 2006. Atlas kavkazskikh jazykov s prilozheniem polnogo
reestra jazykov. Moskva: Piligrim (76 pgs.). for a great collection of
maps displaying the languages of the Caucasus.
Sutton, Peter. 1995. Country : Aboriginal boundaries and land ownership
In Australia. Canberra: Aboriginal History. This article has a good
discussion concerning the presentation and possible interpretations of a
different map of Aboriginal Australian languages.
A. K. Ramanujan & Colin Masica's 'Towards a Phonological Typology of the
Indian Linguistic Area' in Current Trends in Linguistics Vol 5. The Hague
1969, pp. 543-577.
Reference grammars such as Dixon 1972: The
Dyirbal language of North Queensland and he also mentioned Nichols 1998:
The Eurasian spread zone and the Indo-European dispersal (in Archaeology
and Language II and
Nichols 1998: The Eurasian spread zone and the Indo-European dispersal (in
Archaeology and Language II)
SIL (Summer Institute of Linguistics) has produced
A set of maps covering the entire Amazon: Queixalós, Francisco, and Odile
Renault-Lescure, eds. 2000. As línguas amazônicas hoje. São Paulo:
IRD/ISA/MPEG.
The Altas of the World's Languages (2nd ed.), Asher & Moseley (eds.). 2007.
Interesting application of maps in the study of folk linguistics can be
found in Niedzielski, Nancy -- Dennis Preston. 1999. Folk linguistics. Berlin:
Mouton de Gruyter.
French language reference, L'Atlas des langues du monde by Breton and
Mazoyer at
Amazon.
French language reference, L'Atlas des langues du monde by Breton and
Mazoyer
available from Amazon.
A Short, clear discussion about creation of first dialectological maps in
Chambers J. K. & Trudgill, P. Dialectology, CUP, Series: Cambridge
Textbooks in Linguistics, 2nd Ed.
Available at CUP
Note: Various people have contributed to this site, including Francis Hult, Serafin
Colonel-Molina, Rusiko Amirejibi, Candace Luebbering,
and Kathy Howard.
