Maps of Suriname

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.