Alternate History European Linguistic map

How possible is this?

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Not very - something hella weird is happening in the Middle East.

(Erm, you should probably base linguistic maps off of linguistic maps, not political ones. :p)

If pan-arabism in weaker ,the ME governments might promote regional identities, you might have the various dialects of arabic recoginzed as languages.
 
Not very - something hella weird is happening in the Middle East.

(Erm, you should probably base linguistic maps off of linguistic maps, not political ones. :p)

Indeed. Belarus (Russophone, basically) and Ukraine (major Rissophone regions) also leapt out at me.
 
Are you asking how a linguistic map can correspond to political borders? There is an answer, but it's ugly.
 

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What is it, anyways? HOI1 basemap or something? (Yeah, it's ugly.)

No created here on AH.com I think. I have no idea at all why. Maybe one of those Shared World "county map" games or stuff. But the problem with it is how it promotes one of the central vices of AH mapmaking, that is simply recolouring territory instead of actually drawing new borders! Its ugly, and lazy. And used far too often here.
 
No created here on AH.com I think. I have no idea at all why. Maybe one of those Shared World "county map" games or stuff. But the problem with it is how it promotes one of the central vices of AH mapmaking, that is simply recolouring territory instead of actually drawing new borders! Its ugly, and lazy. And used far too often here.

Yeah... although I'll admit I haven't seen a Damned Kazakh Border in, oh, months now.
 
What this posits seems to be a dystopia of proportions not seen since For All Time unfortunately failed to live up to its name. Lingualism gone amok- a Greater German Empire destroys France, while ultranationalist groups succeed at turning all of Europe into self-deterministic hellholes. Presumable ethnic cleansing of minorities as well as forcible assimilation. Countless millions dead. Thanks for ruining my day, mimeyo.
 
Not very - something hella weird is happening in the Middle East.

(Erm, you should probably base linguistic maps off of linguistic maps, not political ones. :p)

If pan-arabism in weaker ,the ME governments might promote regional identities, you might have the various dialects of arabic recoginzed as languages.

Indeed. Belarus (Russophone, basically) and Ukraine (major Rissophone regions) also leapt out at me.

Are you asking how a linguistic map can correspond to political borders? There is an answer, but it's ugly.

Genocide all people who don't speak a country's native language?

It's so plausible that President Batman just declared it mimeyo Day.

Also your name is so awesome, it sounds like a phonetic spelling of my own.:cool:

No created here on AH.com I think. I have no idea at all why. Maybe one of those Shared World "county map" games or stuff. But the problem with it is how it promotes one of the central vices of AH mapmaking, that is simply recolouring territory instead of actually drawing new borders! Its ugly, and lazy. And used far too often here.

Yeah... although I'll admit I haven't seen a Damned Kazakh Border in, oh, months now.

I like that Belgian is now a language.

Sorry, that was mean...the map is relatively implausible.

Kazaks speak Icelandic?

What this posits seems to be a dystopia of proportions not seen since For All Time unfortunately failed to live up to its name. Lingualism gone amok- a Greater German Empire destroys France, while ultranationalist groups succeed at turning all of Europe into self-deterministic hellholes. Presumable ethnic cleansing of minorities as well as forcible assimilation. Countless millions dead. Thanks for ruining my day, mimeyo.
Sorry I was hurrying when i made the map, i am sorry for posting the unfinished version i am posting the finished version.
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For those familiar with the UCS or other maps frequently posted on this site, they may be able to determine what's plausible and what's not. However for people like me who only occasionally look at the maps on this site, I don't know what the hell is going on here.

There's no colour key/legend, so I don't know what represents what. Red could represent Xhosa and Green representing Cantonese for all I know.
 
It wouldn't be pre-1900 but I would argue that if you could use a bit of handwavium to prevent any border changes for the next 300-ish years, and prevent a further increase in moves towards United World Order stuff (i.e. the rise of English or some other as a totally dominant language), then the differences between countries and cultural differences could slowly make every country/subregions shown develop their own dialects over time which are noticeably different from those of their similarly-speaking neighbours.
 
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