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Geographic Distribution of Quechua (Public Content)


Geographic Distribution of Quechua

Source:  Wikimedia Commons: Geographic Distribution of Quechua
Usage Notes/Copyright Status:  GNU Free Documentation License
Date Downloaded:  2008

Map Description:
Español: Mapa de los subgrupos dialectales del Quechua.

English: This map shows the dialectal sub-groups of Quechua.
It is estimated that, including all dialects, there are about 10 million Quechua speakers - this number is contested, however, due to underreporting and migration. The largest known concentration is in Peru where the 1993 census estimated their speaker population to be around 3.2 million.




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Indigenous Peoples of the North Pacific in North America, c. 1880 (Donaldson, Fuller and Steinback)


Indigenous Peoples of the North Pacific in North America, c. 1880

Source:  Donaldson, Ben, Fuller, Andrew, and Charles Steinback. 2004. Indigenous Peoples of the North Pacific, c. 1880. Atlas of Pacific Salmon: The First Map-Based Assessment of Salmon in the North Pacific. ed. by Xanthippe Augerot, USA: University of California Press.
Contact:  University of California Press
Date Digitized: 9 March 2011

Map Description:
This is a map of indigenous peoples in the North Pacific region of North America circa 1880. The original image appears in the Atlas of Pacific Salmon: The First Map-Based Assessment of Salmon in the North Pacific from the University of California Press.

Other LLMAP resources related to this project:
Indigenous Peoples of the North Pacific in Asia, c.1880 (Donaldson, Fuller and Steinback)


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Northern North America: Salishan: Contemporary



Salishan in Contemporary Northern North America

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. 42. Oxford: Routledge.
Date Digitized:   May 2010.

Map Description:
The polygons and points represent concentrations of first-language speakers of Salishan languages. Polygons represent land or areas primarily occupied by first-language speakers whereas points show communities with varying numbers of speakers.

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: Contemporary) contains other maps showing contemporary linguistic subgroups. The maps may be overlaid on each other for a more complete picture.


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Northern North America: Salishan: Time of Contact



Salishan 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 Salishan languages were spoken when they were first encountered and knowledge of them 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. In addition, the folder "North America: Time of Contact" contains a map showing the southern distribution of Salishan languages at the time of contact.


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South America: Geographic Distribution of Quechua Languages


Geographic Distribution of Quechua

Source:  Wikimedia Commons: Geographic Distribution of Quechua
Usage Notes/Copyright Status:  GNU Free Documentation License
Date Downloaded:  2008

Map Description:
Español: Mapa de los subgrupos dialectales del Quechua.

English: This map shows the dialectal sub-groups of Quechua.
It is estimated that, including all dialects, there are about 10 million Quechua speakers - this number is contested, however, due to underreporting and migration. The largest known concentration is in Peru where the 1993 census estimated their speaker population to be around 3.2 million.




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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:   llmaplinguistlist.org
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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