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HerenIstarion 01-31-2006 02:16 AM

Public Research: Mothertongue (Part 2)
 
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I was in doubt how to put down this one, since number of spoken languages of the world exceeds 3,000, but finally I've came to conclusion to put down larges language families. Most common classification distinguishes 19 families, which are listed in two polls (as limit of poll entries for single poll is 10). If you do not find your family here, refer to Public Research: Mothertongue (Part 1). If you are not sure where your language belongs to, consult some authority and/or the Map before voting.

Part of Public Research Project

AbercrombieOfRohan 01-31-2006 06:46 AM

Heren, the link you provided, titled, "The Map" does not work.

HerenIstarion 01-31-2006 07:06 AM

Must now :)

Farael 01-31-2006 10:41 AM

I'm confused... wouldn't Latin (as a family) be where Spanish/Italian and possibly French fit?

Anguirel 01-31-2006 11:24 AM

That would be Indo-European.

We're talking nice, broad distinctions...Eurasia and Eastasia all the way...

Aiwendil 01-31-2006 11:40 AM

Maybe this will help some people.

The Indo-European language group includes:
Indo-Iranian languages (including Sanskrit)
Greek
Italic/Romance languages (Spanish, Italian, French, Romanian, Portuguese, etc.)
Germanic languages (German, Dutch, English, Icelandic, Danish, Swedish, etc. - but not Finnish)
Balto-Slavic (Russian, Ukrainian, Czech, Croation, Slovenian, Latvian, Lithuanian, etc.)
Celtic (Gaelic, Welsh, Breton, etc.)

Lhunardawen 02-01-2006 12:41 AM

Whew, there. I was wondering where Austronesian is.

So I'm the only one who voted (so far) in this part? That's so cool...


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