• EvilCartyen@feddit.dk
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    5 months ago

    These are indo-european languages, I am sure you could do one for sino-tibetan if you feel like it.

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      5 months ago

      Then where’s Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam. Thought I’d see it around Sinhalese but they’re missing. No south india representation :(

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        5 months ago

        They’re not missing, they just belong to an entirely different family. These are Dravidian languages, not Indo-European.

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        5 months ago

        Sure but it also seems a bit, I dunno, silly. Sure, you could do a whole forest if you wanted to, and the name ‘old world languages’ is kinda dumb, as this is just two language families - but it’s still a neat visualisation. It’s not some conspiracy.

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          yea depending on how nitpicky you wanna get you can even point out that some language families are intercontinental between eurasia and the americas (not talking about colonialization, theres some related siberian and canadian languages iirc), but its pretty clear that this is supposed to be a general overview and pie languages do well enough for that