Balkan Peninsula: Ethnolinguistic Distribution, ca. 1910

Source: Magocsi, Paul Robert. 2002. Historical Atlas of Central Europe. Seattle: University of Washington Press.
Contact: University of Washington Press
Date Digitized: 8 June 2011

Map Description:
This map shows the distribution of ethnolinguistic groups in the Balkan Peninsula around the year 1910. The colors follow larger ethnolinguistic groupings as noted in the legend, and the few regions which were not colored or labeled on the original map have been designated as "Unknown."

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East Central Europe: Ethnolinguistic Distribution

Source: Magocsi, Paul Robert. 2002. Historical Atlas of Central Europe. Seattle: University of Washington Press. 55.
Contact: University of Washington Press
Date Digitized: 24 May 2011

Map Description:
This map shows areas of East Central European countries populated by ethnic groups other than the main groups for those particular countries, e.g. Greeks in Albania. Regions, labeled with ethnic group names, signify concentrations of over 50%. Points, labeled with abbreviations, signify concentrations under 50%. The distribution reflects data from ca. 2000.

Corresponding ethnolinguistic group names and abbreviations are provided in the legend.

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Ethnolinguistic Groups of Central Europe ca. 1900

Source: Magocsi, Paul Robert. 2002. Historical Atlas of Central Europe. Seattle: University of Washington Press. 99.
Contact: University of Washington Press
Date Digitized: June 2nd, 2011 (02-06-2011)

Project/Map Description:
Distribution of ethnolinguistic groups found in central Europe in the year 1900 A.D. Groups belonging to the same family are marked by different shades of one color.

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Serbian and Croatian Dialects

Source: Browne, Wayles. 1993. Serbo-Croat. The Slavonic Languages, ed. by Bernard Comrie and Greville G. Corbett, 306-387. London:, New York: Routledge.
Contact: Routledge
Date Digitized: 31 May 2011

Map Description:
This map shows the regions where different Serbian and Croatian dialects are spoken. The distribution reflects data from ca. 1993.

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The UNESCO Database of Endangered Languages (UNESCO)

The UNESCO Database of Endangered Languages

Map Creator: LINGUIST List (Anthony Aristar)
Data Source: Mosely Christopher. 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. Paris, UNESCO Publishing, Online version. http://www.unesco.org/culture/languages-atlas/ (29 November 2010)
Contact: llmap

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Usage Notes/Copyright Status: Used by Permission
Date Created: 29 November 2010

Map Description:
UNESCO’s Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger is a database intended to raise awareness about language endangerment and the need to safeguard the world’s linguistic diversity among policy-makers, speaker communities and the general public, and to be a tool to monitor the status of endangered languages and the trends in linguistic diversity at the global level.

Degrees of endangerment
The map designates the degrees of endangerment as based on UNESCO’s Language Vitality and Endangerment framework.

This establishes six degrees of vitality/endangerment based on nine factors. Of these factors, the most salient is that of intergenerational transmission.

Degree of endangerment	Intergenerational Language Transmission
safe	language is spoken by all generations; intergenerational transmission is uninterrupted >> not included in the map
vulnerable	most children speak the language, but it may be restricted to certain domains (e.g., home)
definitely endangered	children no longer learn the language as mother tongue in the home
severely endangered	language is spoken by grandparents and older generations; while the parent generation may understand it, they do not speak it to children or among themselves
critically endangered	the youngest speakers are grandparents and older, and they speak the language partially and infrequently
extinct	there are no speakers left >> included in the Atlas if presumably extinct since the 1950s

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Maps of Bosnian

Balkan Peninsula: Ethnolinguistic Distribution, ca. 1910