I did not realise that. I guess a wholly bilingual country does not look at all good on these maps. The only point is that I doubt there would be as many Danish speakers in the more isolated areas as in the southwestern part, but to be fair there are probably no native speakers in the most isolated areas.
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I did not realise that. I guess a wholly bilingual country does not look at all good on these maps. The only point is that I doubt there would be as many Danish speakers in the more isolated areas as in the southwestern part, but to be fair there are probably no native speakers in the most isolated areas.
No, definitely not.
If anything the French outside of Quebec is underrepresented.
Also native languages in Canada seem sorely under represented (sadly I can't find a good map, but if you get a map of population density most of the barely inhabited areas are probably at least bilinugally native speaking), while Austrlian aborigines are sadly over represented.
Look at the map I posted. The isolated north is some of the most Francophone regions, and it even spreads into northern Ontario.
I am curious, is that Italian near Hamilton?
with the previous french and english posts, here the map for people having German as second language
image comes from here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German-speaking_Europe
image comes from here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German-speaking_Europe
a post on dialects in the low countries:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_dialects
a wikipage in Dutch: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nederlandse_dialecten
it has a map that nicely shows that 18 of the 41 Dutch dialect differ more from standard Dutch than Afrikaans (south-african) does
map that shows them:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_dialects
a wikipage in Dutch: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nederlandse_dialecten
it has a map that nicely shows that 18 of the 41 Dutch dialect differ more from standard Dutch than Afrikaans (south-african) does
map that shows them:
Yeah, doing anything more than native language would make the map unreadable.
Individual maps for each language might work.
No, it's French. I think Hamilton has a more Frenchies than the rest of Ontario, around 10% Wikipedia claims, so I thought that it was enough to stripe some of it with Romance.
Anyway, here's the latest fix to North America. I pushed the Algonquian languages south of the 60th, based mostly on population density. I hope it looks alright.
Any comments?
An improvement over all. A couple things to mention though:
a) I'm not sure the Northern Ontario francophone population is shown enough.
b) I can't find anything about high francophone rates in Hamilton. I found something about it being a service centre, but so was Toronto which seems to show it's just for large population centres.
c) Algonquian is probably the biggest language group by numbers for Native Canadians, but it's not all. Na-Dene is a fairly significant family (and might be in the same group as Yeniseian languages).
I think that some of the majority Spanish-speaking areas near me are large enough to get some hatch patches. I'm working on a northeast Illinois language map; when I finish it I will post it here.
I was referring more to that I didn't see French hatched over those regions, although I might just be looking in the wrong place because of the projection
From what I can tell, the Algonquian Languages are spoken in the Southern Portions of the band that is being called Algonquian here, while the Na-Dene Languages are spoken in the Northern Portions of that area. I think they should be split on the map.
Haida (spoken on Haida Gwaii/the Queen Charlotte Islands) is generally considered an isolate.
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