Maps of Ukrainian

Balkan Peninsula: Ethnolinguistic Distribution, ca. 1910


Balkan Peninsula: Ethnolinguistic Distribution, ca. 1910

Source:  Magocsi, Paul Robert. 2002. Historical Atlas of Central Europe. Seattle: University of Washington Press.
Contact:  University of Washington Press
Date Digitized:  8 June 2011

Map Description:
This map shows the distribution of ethnolinguistic groups in the Balkan Peninsula around the year 1910. The colors follow larger ethnolinguistic groupings as noted in the legend, and the few regions which were not colored or labeled on the original map have been designated as "Unknown."


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Central and Eastern Europe: Languages and Dialects (Public Content)


Languages and Dialects of Central and Eastern Europe

Source:   Wikimedia
Usage Notes/Copyright Status:   This image is in the public domain because it contains materials that originally came from the United States Central Intelligence Agency's World Factbook.
Date Downloaded:   23 Feb 2007

Map Description:
This map presents the distribution of languages and dialects in Central and Eastern Europe. An English version of the map, done by Wikimedia User Kpalion is available on Wikimedia.

Other LLMap resources related to this project:
Polish: Dialects (Urbanczyk)


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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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East Central Europe: Ethnolinguistic Distribution

East Central Europe: Ethnolinguistic Distribution

Source:  Magocsi, Paul Robert. 2002. Historical Atlas of Central Europe. Seattle: University of Washington Press. 55.
Contact:  University of Washington Press
Date Digitized:
  24 May 2011

Map Description:
This map shows areas of East Central European countries populated by ethnic groups other than the main groups for those particular countries, e.g. Greeks in Albania. Regions, labeled with ethnic group names, signify concentrations of over 50%. Points, labeled with abbreviations, signify concentrations under 50%. The distribution reflects data from ca. 2000.

Corresponding ethnolinguistic group names and abbreviations are provided in the legend.



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Ethnolinguistic Groups of Central Europe ca. 1900


Ethnolinguistic Groups of Central Europe ca. 1900

Source:  Magocsi, Paul Robert. 2002. Historical Atlas of Central Europe. Seattle: University of Washington Press. 99.
Contact:  University of Washington Press
Date Digitized:  June 2nd, 2011 (02-06-2011)

Project/Map Description:
Distribution of ethnolinguistic groups found in central Europe in the year 1900 A.D. Groups belonging to the same family are marked by different shades of one color.



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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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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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Slavic languages in early modern times


Slavic languages in early modern times


Source:  Barford, Paul M. 2001. The Early Slavs: Culture and Society in Early Medieval Eastern Europe. New York: Cornell University Press.
Contact:  Cornell University Press,
Usage Notes/Copyright Status: 
Date digitized:  : 23-May-2011

Map Description:
This map shows the distribution of various Slavic languages during the early modern period. This map displays potential contact situations which may have arisen at that time.


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Slavonic Dialect Areas in the Tenth Century


Slavonic Dialect Areas in the Tenth Century


Source:  Schenker, Alexander. M. 1993. Proto-Slavonic. The Slavonic Languages, ed. by Bernard Comrie and Grenville G. Corbett, 60-121. London:, New York: Routledge.
Contact:  Routledge
Date Digitized:  02-Jun-2011

Project/Map Description:
This map shows the distribution of the Slavonic dialects in the tenth century. It also displays the languages descend from these ancester dialects. For instance, Polish, Slovincian and Cassubian descend from Lechitic (the largest group of the Western Slavonic dialects), and Slovene and Serbo-Croat have descend from West South Slavonic. The linguistic divisions on the map show where dialects have divided, since the tenth century, and become separate languages.


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Soviet Languages


Languages of the Soviet Union

Source: Milner-Gulland, Robin with Nikolai Dejevsky. 1989. Cultural Atlas of Russia and the Soviet Union 
Date Digitized:   February 2011

Map Description:
"Two great language families dominate the territory of the Soviet Union. The larger is the Slavonic, comprising the closely related Russian, Ukrainian and Belorussian. Native speakers of Russian extend from the Gulf of Finland to the Pacific; nevertheless they are now less than half the total population. The other family is the Turkic, most of whose recognized languages and dialects are intercomprehensible: it extends from the Azerbayjan to Yakutia. Other non-Indo-European language families include the Finnic to the north and the Caucasian group to the south."

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The Slavonic Language Family (Milner-Gulland with Dejevsky)


The Slavonic Language Family

Source:  Milner-Gulland, Robin with Nikolai Dejevsky. 1989. The Slavonic Language Family. Cultural Atlas of Russia and the Soviet Union, ed. by Graham Speake, 28-29. Oxford: Equinox (Oxford) Ltd.
Date Digitized: 30-MAR-2011

Map Description:
This map is digitized from the map 'The Slavonic Language Family' from Cultural Atlas of Russia and the Soviet Union by Milner-Gulland and Dejevsky. It chronicles the Slavic speaking areas of the world circa 800 and circa 1500. The map is also broken down into regions, and illustrates language contact amongst Slavonic and non-Slavonic speakers in the region.

Other LLMAP resources related to this project:
Eastern Europe and the Byzantine World in the 10th Century (Milner-Gulland with Dejevsky)


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