Maps of Selkup

Distribution of Ethnic Groups and Languages in Siberia at the Beginning of the 20th Century


Distribution of Ethnic Groups and Languages in Siberia at the Beginning of the 20th Century.

Source:   Wurm, S.A. 1996. Distribution of ethnic groups and languages in Siberia at the beginning of the 20th Century. Atlas of Languages of Intercultural Communication in the Pacific, Asia, and the Americas. Eds. Stephen A. Wurm. II.2.
Date Digitized:   June 2010

Map Description:
This maps illustrates the locations of various language areas and ethnic groups prominent in Siberia at the beginning of the 20th Century. It is important to note that the expansion of Russians and their language affected the northeastern part of Siberia, especially the Kamchatka Peninsula, a region formerly taken up by the Itelmens and their language.



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Distribution of Ethnic Groups and Languages in Siberia in the mid-20th century


Distribution of Ethnic Groups and Languages in Siberia in the Mid-20th Century

Source:   Wurm, S.A. 1996. Distribution of ethnic groups and language areas in Siberia in the mid-20th century. In Stephan A. Wurm (ed), Atlas of Languages of Intercultural Communication in the Pacific, Asia, and the Americas, II.2. Berlin; New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
Date Digitized:   August 2010

Map Description:
This map displays the ethnic groups and language areas present in Siberia during the mid-20th century. Rodionov (1996) notes that in the 1950s the third intensive settelement of Siberia took place, beginning with the opening of untouched, uncultivated land.

Other LLMAP resources related to this project:
In this folder there are two other digital maps by Rodionov (1996), detailing the distribution of ethnic groups and languages in Siberia at different times in history.


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


Indigenous Peoples of the North Pacific in Asia, 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: 17-Feb-2011

Map Description:
This is a map of indigenous peoples in the North Pacific region of Asia 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 resources related to this project:
Indigenous Peoples of the North Pacific in North America, c.1880 (Donaldson, Fuller and Steinback)


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National Ethnic Makeup - People of Russia


National Ethnic Makeup - People of Russia

Source: 2004. Natsionalnyi atlas Rossii v Chetyrekh. Vol 3. Moscow: Federalnaia sluzhba geodezii i kartografii Rossii.
Date Digitized: June 2010

Map Description:
This map displays the contemporary distribution of ethnic groups in Russia. It includes a set of points for which there was no corresponding item in the original map's legend. This set is designated here as "Unknown Ethnic Group". The map comes from a four volume set of Russian cartographic data from geology to history.



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North Asia: Paleoasiatic and other North Asiatic languages (TITUS)



Paleoasiatic and other North Asiatic Languages

Source:   Thesaurus Indogermanischer Text- und Sprachmaterialien (TITUS)
Data Source:   H. Glück (ed.), Metzler Lexikon Sprache, Stuttgart / Weimar: Metzler 1993, p. 659.
Usage Notes/Copyright Status:   Jost Gippert, Frankfurt a/M 1999-2003. This server provides teaching materials concerning Indo-European and Non-Indo-European languages. Those materials that can be downloaded via http can be used freely for teaching purposes, provided that they are quoted as sources and the name(s) of the editor(s) and the date of last changes are indicated. No parts of this document may be republished in any form without prior permission by the copyright holder.
Date Digitized:   April 2010

Map Description:
This map depicts the languages of North Asia. Moving roughly from north to south in the western part of the map, the Uralic languages are divided into Samoyedic, Ob-Ugric, Turkic, and Mongolian. Directly to the east and north are Tungusic languages, while Paleoasiatic languages are located to the far north and east.



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Siberia: Languages (PROEL)


Languages and Language Families in Siberia

Source:   The PROEL map of Siberia
The LINGUIST List MultiTree Language Database.

Date downloaded:   01/01/2010

Map Description:
This map shows the distribution of languages and language families in Siberia.
More information on the individual languages and language families can be obtained by right-clicking on the map and following the links to the Multitree database, or by going to the PROEL project site.
Please note that there are layers for languages, language subgroups and language families.




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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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