Maps of Beothuk
Eskimo Interethnic Contacts: Northeastern Canada and Greenland
Eskimo Interethnic Contacts: Northeastern Canada and Greenland
Source:
van der Voort, Hein. 1996. Eskimo Interethnic Contacts: Northeastern Canada & Greenland. Atlas of Languages of Intercultural Communication in the Pacific, Asia, and the Americas, ed. by Stephen A. Wurm, Peter Mühlhäusler, and Darrel T. Tryon. Vol. II.2. London, New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
Date Digitized: August 2010
Map Description:
This map illustrates the following: 1) it shows the locations of various ethnic groups; 2) it shows settlements of the Vikings and 3) it displays the locations of pidgins in Northeastern Canada and Greenland. Furthermore, it points out the influence of bilingualism. It is important to note that where there are no arrows, English is the dominant second language.
Date Digitized: August 2010
Map Description:
This map illustrates the following: 1) it shows the locations of various ethnic groups; 2) it shows settlements of the Vikings and 3) it displays the locations of pidgins in Northeastern Canada and Greenland. Furthermore, it points out the influence of bilingualism. It is important to note that where there are no arrows, English is the dominant second language.
Note: Scanned or downloaded images have been geo-registered for compatibility with our project interface. Slight imperfections are an inevitable result of the registration process. View original image(s) to see the unaltered map(s).
Northern North America: Beothuk: Time of Contact
Beothuk in Northern North America at the Time of Contact
Source:
Golla, Victor, Ives Goddard, Lyle Camplbell, Marianne Mithun and Mauricio Mixco. 2007. North America. In R. E. Asher & Christopher Moseley (eds.), Atlas of the World's Languages. 41. Oxford: Routledge.
Date Digitized: May 2010.
Map Description:
The polygons represent areas where Beothuk was spoken when it was first encountered and knowledge of it was recorded.
This original map was made by vectorizing data from the MultiTree language database and the Atlas of the World's Languages.
Other resources related to this project:
This folder (Northern North America: Time of Contact) contains other maps showing linguistic subgroups at the time of contact. The maps may be overlaid on each other for a more complete picture.
Date Digitized: May 2010.
Map Description:
The polygons represent areas where Beothuk was spoken when it was first encountered and knowledge of it was recorded.
This original map was made by vectorizing data from the MultiTree language database and the Atlas of the World's Languages.
Other resources related to this project:
This folder (Northern North America: Time of Contact) contains other maps showing linguistic subgroups at the time of contact. The maps may be overlaid on each other for a more complete picture.
Note: Scanned or downloaded images have been geo-registered for compatibility with our project interface. Slight imperfections are an inevitable result of the registration process. Color selections used in this map are advised by ColorBrewer.