Maps of Maranao-Iranon
The Philippines: The Numerically Most Important Languages
The Philippines: The Numerically Most Important Languages
Source:
Data Source: Irvine, A. K and David Appleyard. 2007. "Australasia and the South Pacific". In R. E. Asher & Christopher Moseley (eds.). Atlas of the World’s Languages. Oxford: Routledge.
"Austronesian: Composite 2011". MultiTree: A Digital Library of Language Relationships
Date Digitized: 10-May-2011
Map Description:
This map shows the 'Major Indigenous Languages' of the Philippines at the time of contact, as determined by number of speakers. All the languages included have more than 1 million speakers, and are considered 'Lingua Franca's' in the different regions of the country. The Philippines linguistic make up includes approximately 150 different languages (Irvine and Appleyard 2007).
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 map is part of a mapping project detailing the languages of the Australian and Austronesian language families. (Information forthcoming). The maps may be overlaid on each other for a more complete picture.
Data Source: Irvine, A. K and David Appleyard. 2007. "Australasia and the South Pacific". In R. E. Asher & Christopher Moseley (eds.). Atlas of the World’s Languages. Oxford: Routledge.
"Austronesian: Composite 2011". MultiTree: A Digital Library of Language Relationships
Date Digitized: 10-May-2011
Map Description:
This map shows the 'Major Indigenous Languages' of the Philippines at the time of contact, as determined by number of speakers. All the languages included have more than 1 million speakers, and are considered 'Lingua Franca's' in the different regions of the country. The Philippines linguistic make up includes approximately 150 different languages (Irvine and Appleyard 2007).
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 map is part of a mapping project detailing the languages of the Australian and Austronesian language families. (Information forthcoming). The maps may be overlaid on each other for a more complete picture.
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