Maps of Spanish

Central & South America: Voseo use (Public Content)


Map of Voseo Usage by Countries

Source:   Wikimedia Commons
Usage Notes/Copyright Status:   GNU Free Documentation License
Date Downloaded:   4 February 2009

Map Description:
English: Map of countries using the pronoun voseo. In dark blue, countries with voseo predominance. In blue, countries where it is as used as tuteo. In green, countries where it is featured as a regionalism. In sky blue, countries where it is almost unused. In red, countries where only tuteo is used.

Español: Mapa del voseo en Latinoamérica. En azul oscuro, países donde predomina completamente sobre el tuteo; en azul, países donde ambas formas coexisten; en verde, países en que es un fenómeno regional; en celeste, aquellos países en que casi no se usa; y en rojo, países donde sólo hay tuteo.



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Indo-European Languages and Creoles in Contemporary South America

Indo-European Languages and Creoles 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:  2 August 2011

Map Description:
This map displays the Indo-European languages and creoles spoken in South America ca. 2007. The Indo-European languages are shown by country, and this map can be understood as the background layer to the other languages of South America.

This original map was made by vectorizing data from the MultiTree language database and the Atlas of the World's Languages.


Other LLMAP resources related to this project:
This folder (Contemporary South American Languages) contains other maps showing contemporary linguistic subgroups in this area. 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.

Isolates and Creoles in Contemporary Meso-America

Isolates and Creoles in Contemporary Meso-America

Source:   Kaufman, Terrence. 2007. South America. Atlas of the World's Languages, ed. by R. E. Asher and Christopher Moseley, 57. Oxford: Routledge.
Date Digitized:   22 June 2011

Map Description:
This map shows the areas where isolates and creoles are spoken within Meso-America. The distribution of Indo-European languages throughout the region, namely Spanish and English, is provided as well.

This original map was made by vectorizing data from the MultiTree language database and the Atlas of the World's Languages.


Other LLMAP resources related to this project:
This folder (Contemporary South American Languages) contains other maps showing contemporary linguistic subgroups in this area. 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.