Map of India's Languages

[ysabetwordsmith]

This is so awesome.  I love this map of India's languages.  I'd love to see this done for the whole world.

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Re: Well...

[judifilksign.livejournal.com]

I'm guessing all those Himalayan Mountains did a lot for geographical isolation in the past few thousand years, making dialects and linguistic variations for those valleys and peaks and so on.

Yes...

[ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com]

That's it exactly. It was hard for people to travel, which made it easy for languages to exist in close proximity without mingling. Another place with extreme linguistic density is Aotearoa / New Zealand.