Maps of West Germanic

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.