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Feast your eyes on this beautiful linguistic family tree
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Ana Lourenço Portugal Local time: 07:08 English to Portuguese + ... Linguistic family tree | Oct 29, 2014 |
What a beutiful and interesting linguistic family tree.
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I love trees in any form--the symbol of life. | | |
Phil Hand China Local time: 15:08 Chinese to English One for the kids' bedroom wall | Oct 29, 2014 |
I have printed it out and will be Blutacking it up on their wall. One of the most inspiring things about the last few years has been the development of great images and stories to tell truths about the world as discovered by science. I recommend xkcd for other cool images. | | |
LEXpert United States Local time: 02:08 Member (2008) Croatian to English + ... When was year 0? | Oct 29, 2014 |
I know it's probably a stupid question, but when is/was the mentioned year 0 reference point? Nice, though. | |
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Beautifull tree, but as Rudolf, I am also a bit curious when was year 0.
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Phil Hand China Local time: 15:08 Chinese to English I think it's to do with the author's comic | Oct 30, 2014 |
The woman who drew the chart writes & draws a comic strip about a post-apocalyptic near future, so I think the 0 is a reference to a new calendar adopted after the apocalypse. | | |
Best decor of my office | Oct 30, 2014 |
Can anybody think of better decoration of the walls in an office of a linguist!? Amazing! As Harry Lorraine states visualization of a concept is crucial. I believe if I look it every day I will finally learn these main language families! | | |
No Semitic languages | Oct 31, 2014 |
Unfortunately, the author only included the languages relevant to the plot of her book, so the Semitic languages have been left out (so not exactly all "Old World languages" - the title is a bit misleading). | |
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Ty Kendall United Kingdom Local time: 07:08 Hebrew to English Love the imagery but | Oct 31, 2014 |
Would have liked it to be a generic language family tree so it included the Semitic languages (my source language). Shame I can't draw, paint or sketch to save my life, otherwise I'd have a go at doing one.
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Some i important Asian languages are missing. Where are Telugu, Tamil or Kannada which are very old languages? | | |
Ty Kendall United Kingdom Local time: 07:08 Hebrew to English
aruna yallapragada wrote: Some i important Asian languages are missing. Where are Telugu, Tamil or Kannada which are very old languages? it is a "Comprehensive overlook of the Nordic languages in their Old World language families", i.e. it only addresses the trees where somewhere down the line there is a Nordic language branching from it, which means the Indo-European and Finno-Ugric/Uralic trees only.
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Title a bit misleading | Oct 31, 2014 |
Since it mentioned a few modern Indian languages, I thought these should have been included too. It would have been nice if all languages had been included. The visual effect is good. | |
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More languages are missing..... | Oct 31, 2014 |
like those of the pre-Colombian cultures (still spoken today) and also in Asia they communicate with each other! But this is beyond the point, the tree represents, at least that is how interpretate it, the history of what we speak in "the West" now, no more, no less, so let's not start nagging about missing languages. Perfect doesn't exist.
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Ty Kendall United Kingdom Local time: 07:08 Hebrew to English It's a bit misleading but only shows the roots of the Nordic languages | Oct 31, 2014 |
Robert Rietvelt wrote: like those of the pre-Colombian cultures (still spoken today) and also in Asia they communicate with each other! The tree only represents the family trees with a connection to the Nordic languages. | | |
That is what I meant with "what we speak in "the West", but please also see my last words: "let's not start nagging about missing languages. Perfect doesn't exist".
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