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Central and Eastern Europe: Languages and Dialects (Public Content)


Languages and Dialects of Central and Eastern Europe

Source:   Wikimedia
Usage Notes/Copyright Status:   This image is in the public domain because it contains materials that originally came from the United States Central Intelligence Agency's World Factbook.
Date Downloaded:   23 Feb 2007

Map Description:
This map presents the distribution of languages and dialects in Central and Eastern Europe. An English version of the map, done by Wikimedia User Kpalion is available on Wikimedia.

Other LLMap resources related to this project:
Polish: Dialects (Urbanczyk)


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Czech Dialects


Czech Dialects


Source:  Short, David. 1993. Czech. The Slavonic Languages, ed. by Bernard Comrie and Grenville G. Corbett, 455-532. London:, New York: Routledge.
Contact:  Routledge
Date Digitized:  14-Jun-2011

Map Description:
This map shows the four main dialect groups of Czech: Bohemian, Central Moravian (HanĂ¡), Moravian-Slovak and Silesian (Lachian). There is also a belt of Czech-Polish dialects at the border where these two countries meet, incorporating features of both languages. One example of such a dialect may be Cieszyn Silesian.


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East Central Europe: Ethnolinguistic Distribution

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


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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Slavic languages in early modern times


Slavic languages in early modern times


Source:  Barford, Paul M. 2001. The Early Slavs: Culture and Society in Early Medieval Eastern Europe. New York: Cornell University Press.
Contact:  Cornell University Press,
Usage Notes/Copyright Status: 
Date digitized:  : 23-May-2011

Map Description:
This map shows the distribution of various Slavic languages during the early modern period. This map displays potential contact situations which may have arisen at that time.


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Slavonic Dialect Areas in the Tenth Century


Slavonic Dialect Areas in the Tenth Century


Source:  Schenker, Alexander. M. 1993. Proto-Slavonic. The Slavonic Languages, ed. by Bernard Comrie and Grenville G. Corbett, 60-121. London:, New York: Routledge.
Contact:  Routledge
Date Digitized:  02-Jun-2011

Project/Map Description:
This map shows the distribution of the Slavonic dialects in the tenth century. It also displays the languages descend from these ancester dialects. For instance, Polish, Slovincian and Cassubian descend from Lechitic (the largest group of the Western Slavonic dialects), and Slovene and Serbo-Croat have descend from West South Slavonic. The linguistic divisions on the map show where dialects have divided, since the tenth century, and become separate languages.


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The Slavonic Language Family (Milner-Gulland with Dejevsky)


The Slavonic Language Family

Source:  Milner-Gulland, Robin with Nikolai Dejevsky. 1989. The Slavonic Language Family. Cultural Atlas of Russia and the Soviet Union, ed. by Graham Speake, 28-29. Oxford: Equinox (Oxford) Ltd.
Date Digitized: 30-MAR-2011

Map Description:
This map is digitized from the map 'The Slavonic Language Family' from Cultural Atlas of Russia and the Soviet Union by Milner-Gulland and Dejevsky. It chronicles the Slavic speaking areas of the world circa 800 and circa 1500. The map is also broken down into regions, and illustrates language contact amongst Slavonic and non-Slavonic speakers in the region.

Other LLMAP resources related to this project:
Eastern Europe and the Byzantine World in the 10th Century (Milner-Gulland with Dejevsky)


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