Lexical Distance Among Languages of Europe (2015)

Lexical Distance Among Languages of Europe (2015)

The bubbles area correctly corresponds with the speaker size in logarithmic classes, >3000 speakers, >30 000 speakers, >300 000 speakers ect… That means that the bubble size of Ukrainian with 37 million speakers is the same size as the German or Russian bubble with 95 million speakers (in Europe) or the Icelandic bubble with 300 000 speakers has the same bubble size as languages with 2,5 to 3 million speakers. Third, in the Elms diagrams several Indo-European branches, Albanian, Baltic, Celtic, Germanic, Hellenic, Romance (Italic) and Slavic as well some Uralic languages are depict. Taking the 66 150 Faroese speakers as a cut off line, there are 1 Armenian, 1 Basque, 2 Germanic, 6 Italic, 2 Kartvelian, 5 Caucasian, 1 Semetic, 8 Turkic, 2 Slavic, 14 Uralic languages missing (again depending on where Europe ends and what is considered a language).

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