Alternate Linguistic Map

For some reason, all the Caucasian languages have disappeared, along with the Celtic languages...

I'm guessing that that nondescript Indo-European language in the northern Caucasus is Armenian, which is odd, as the Armenians mainly inhabited the southern Caucasus.

But how did western Iran get Arabized, and how did the Afro-Asiatic languages go extinct in all of Ethiopia, but not in a part of Somalia?

And how did virtually all of Southeast Asia get assimilated?

And what happened to Albanian, Kurdish, Korean and Japanese?
Korean and Japanese are still there. I labeled them as Altaic so I didn't need an extra color.
 
Okay, how about in the 500s the Finns, instead of migrating to Finland, stay in Central Asia and are absorbed by the Mongols. Thus, when the Mongols go world conquering, they have more men, allowing them to crush Persia and wipe the Magyars and Bulgars out. They move farther into Europe, really messing up the place before the Khanate falls apart. Bulgaria is partitioned between Serbia and a Beylik state, Armenia and Persia rebuild but never recover, and Hungary is absorbed into a Polish-Bohemian union while England and France assimilate their Celtic speakers, except for a few holdouts in Dumnonee and Connaught. Colonisation occurs differently due to butterflies, with a stronger Mughal Empire colonizing Madagascar, and the Africans being made to speak European languages like the Native Americans are. I can't get more detailed than that because this is a linguistic map, not a political one.
 
Okay, how about in the 500s the Finns, instead of migrating to Finland, stay in Central Asia and are absorbed by the Mongols.

There was no unified Mongol culture until the late 12th century. A bit too late to absorb the Finns, IMO.
 
There was no unified Mongol culture until the late 12th century. A bit too late to absorb the Finns, IMO.

Well, "Mongol" sounded better than "Generic Central Asian Horse Nomad":D.
Still, my point about a stronger Central Asian khanate moving in and wrecking Medieval Europe still stands.
 
Okay, how about in the 500s the Finns, instead of migrating to Finland, stay in Central Asia and are absorbed by the Mongols. Thus, when the Mongols go world conquering, they have more men, allowing them to crush Persia and wipe the Magyars and Bulgars out. They move farther into Europe, really messing up the place before the Khanate falls apart. Bulgaria is partitioned between Serbia and a Beylik state, Armenia and Persia rebuild but never recover, and Hungary is absorbed into a Polish-Bohemian union while England and France assimilate their Celtic speakers, except for a few holdouts in Dumnonee and Connaught. Colonisation occurs differently due to butterflies, with a stronger Mughal Empire colonizing Madagascar, and the Africans being made to speak European languages like the Native Americans are. I can't get more detailed than that because this is a linguistic map, not a political one.
Well, but in the 500s the Fins didn't live in Central Asia. Even more, they never lived in Central Asia.:rolleyes:

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Really? I thought they were an Ugro-Altaic culture like the Huns and Magyars.
They had common ancestry with Magyars (language at least), but very different culture in time, when Magyars settled in the Central Europe.

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Well, "Mongol" sounded better than "Generic Central Asian Horse Nomad":D.
Still, my point about a stronger Central Asian khanate moving in and wrecking Medieval Europe still stands.

Actually, the Altaic spread is roughly the same as OTL, so that would not be needed. Maybe a stronger khanate (Uyghur, Karakhanid, Karakhitai, etc) expanding into the area northeast of Beijing, preventing Chinese colonization of Manchuria.
 
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