Maps of Munit
Languages of Papua New Guinea (Dahl)
Languages of Papua New Guinea (Dahl)
Map Creator: Östen Dahl & Ghazaleh VafaeianData Source: Various web sources including:
Papuan New Guinea Collection of Data Sources
Contact: Östen Dahl & Ghazaleh Vafaeian, Stockholm University
Email: oesten
ling.su.se Department of Linguistics
Stockholm University
S-106 91 Stockholm
Date Digitized: Sept-2011
Map Description:
This map intends to show the distribution of the indigenous languages of the eastern part of the island of New Guinea, that is, the part that belongs to the Independent State of Papua New Guinea (It thus excludes, for the time being, the Indonesian part of the island and the smaller islands included in Papua New Guinea.) Papua New Guinea is the country in the world that is home to the largest number of living languages, estimated at 830, or 12 per cent of all languages in the world. Of these, 700 are spoken on the main island. Although the geographical area covered is only about 400,000 sq. kms, this makes up roughly 10 per cent of the languages of the world. The map contains full or partial information about approximately 550 of these, or almost 8 per cent of the world's languages.
Matákoan in Contemporary South America
Matákoan in Contemporary South America
Source:
Kaufman, Terrence. 2007. South America. In R. E. Asher & Christopher Moseley (eds.), Atlas of the World's Languages, 83-93. Oxford: Routledge.
"Otomacoan: Campbell 1997." MultiTree: A Digital Library of Language Relationships
Date Digitized: 3 August 2011
Map Description:
This map shows where languages in the Matákoan language group were spoken ca. 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 folder (Contemporary South American Languages) contains other maps displaying linguistic subgroups in the region. The maps may be overlaid on each other for a more complete picture.
"Otomacoan: Campbell 1997." MultiTree: A Digital Library of Language Relationships
Date Digitized: 3 August 2011
Map Description:
This map shows where languages in the Matákoan language group were spoken ca. 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 folder (Contemporary South American Languages) contains other maps displaying linguistic subgroups in the region. 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.