Following up yesterday’s posting about languages, I am posting this map I found on Wikipedia that shows where different languages are spoken throughout Europe. I find this type of map quite interesting to view, yet I feel it lacks one important cartographic aspect: overlap. Basically, the simplified map above does not show where multiple languages are spoken, rather only where the dominant languages are. By not including this important aspect we are given a nicely colored map, yet in reality there is a lot more merging of colors because there are geographies that have multiple languages spoken.

It’s too bad I don’t know Hebrew because tonight’s exhibition will most likely include some Hebrew on maps of Israel.

#UPDATE – I have updated the map to the latest version on Wikipedia, which was made in February 25, 2009.

Related Europe Entries:

• Teki Latex dans un QR Code tee-shirt
• [FOUND MAP] Isola d'Elba aka the Island of Elba
• YouTube videos of the "Do-Re-Me" dance in Antwerp's Central Station
• Photograph of the ceiling inside of the Alhambra obtained from the Casselman Archive of Islamic and Mudejar Architecture in Spain
• New videos are up on the Huffington Post - Foreign Correspondents Edition
• She's got the sole of the city with SWIMS galoshes
• The Use of the Analemma - As explained around 1780
• An interview on a bicycle conducted while riding through Amsterdam
• The Millbank Penitentiary, the Tate Britain, and the Panopticon
• In Praise of a Contented Mind / My Mind to me a Kingdom is
• Bicycle Freedom! [Vélib' in DC]
• Tabvla Temporis [Semidiurni in fignis Borealibus / Australibus]
• A New & Arabesque Map of the Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden
• Rush hour bicycle traffic congestion in Copenhagen, Denmark
• GPS Drawing in the new Mercedes advertisement
• World Vision : You can't ignore child labor
• Astrophotography by Anthony Ayiomamitis - Analemma with the Parthenon
• Cambio de Vida
• ordered last week: New Blaeu
• Thats the Kurti...
• Du Er Her
• Map of the Languages of Europe
• Kaleidoscoop by Pieter Van den Dorpe
• From Here to There in Google Maps
• Carte du Telegraphe Optique [dans l'hexagone]
• NOVA ET ACCVRATISSIMA TOTIVS TERRARVM ORBIS TABVLA [2007 Remix]
• Society is Enriched by Labor :: Socio Ditata Labore
• GPS nabs another one...
• Star of Europe
• Abstract Netherlands
• B.A.D. Day Call to Action!
• more morning notes
• morning notes
• embedded hurricane reporters
• MHz
• Brussels- again
• Brussels & the American Candidate

Related Found Map Entries:

• [FOUND MAP] 50+ Yard Sales in Adams Morgan
• [FOUND MAP] The Lining of a Leather Jacket
• WAR SIGNS IN THE STARS : Our Country's Horoscope Says There Will Be Peace - The Washington Times, April 10, 1898
• A T-Rex Google Map On My Neighborhood Via Twitter
• [Found Map] The 3rd District Police Station in Washington, DC
• What the Stars Tell of The Times - The Washington Times, February 9, 1896
• Found Propaganda Map From The Oromo Liberation Front
• A Projected Relief Park Map of the United States - The Washington Times, March 28, 1897
• My Accidental Geography Submission "Gingerbread DC" Was Featured Today on StrangeMaps
• whereyouare / whereiam@ - A Satircal Election Map of Maine's Vote on Same-Sex Marriage
• A Diagrammatic Photograph Showing The American Warship, The Delaware, Blowing Up New York City
• [FOUND MAP] The Ambassadors by Hans Holbein, The Younger (1533)
• Randle Highlands VS Fort Dupont [Antique Overlay of an Anacostia Alternative Future]
• [FOUND MAP] The Masthead Map of the San Mateo Item Newspaper
• Map of Teacher Starting Salary vs. Annual Amount Spent on Inmates
• Map Tattoo: The State of Maryland
• "NO" - Found Cartographic Typography
• Map of the Indigenous Languages of North America
• Groupon.com is illegally using my map "DC Stencil" for a Facebook advertisement
• [Found Maps] License Plate Maps of DC & Maryland at Artomatic 2009
• Before & After Aerial Photographs of Ground Zero in Nagasaki, Japan
• [FOUND MAP] Dear WMATA, is it called the Hirshhorn Gallery or Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden?
• Note to the cartographers at the New York Times: the Red Line goes into Maryland
• [FOUND MAP] Isola d'Elba aka the Island of Elba
• [Found Map] Topographic window sign at Current Lounge & Sushi Restaurant
• Unique Maps of Iraq in the Iraqi Embassy in Washington, DC
• The aerial photography of the area around the Metro crash site contains a Metro train
• The Craig Retroazimuthal Projection aka the Mecca Projection
• World Wildlife Fund's Zoomorphic Fantasy Maps
• Nixon Sends GIs Into Cambodia And An Inverted 1970 Map of Communist Controlled Laos and Cambodia
• Thomas Jefferson's Map of Washington from March 31st, 1791
• The Peters Projection advocated on the West Wing television show
• The 11 Mile Canyon Dam
• [FOUND MAP] New York City: The 51st State
• The American Flag in a 51 Star Configuration with One Star Removed
• Geospatial art created by exploiting search engine aggregation algorithms
• Found in the Grand Juxtaposition: I am not a terrorist in Tucson
• She's got the sole of the city with SWIMS galoshes
• You're A Nation!
• Kiss My Art, Just Kiss It
• The Geography of Personality Interactive Map
• Federico Aubele's Anthropomorphic Map of Panamericana
• The Adidas World Map and the Adidas Map of the Western Hemisphere
• Wasilla, Alaska is literally off the map, the Google Map that is
• A New & Somewhat Accurate Map of the Tropic of Gemini and the Tropic of Sagittarius
• Democratic National Convention 2008 - Photos from Day Two
• My Weekend in Photos [8/22-8/24]
• A World Map Sign @ the A N M Market & Deli in the Atlas District
• Photos from last night's "Quart Bag" exhibition @ the Civilian Art Projects
• Lost in a hairy bush? Use a map! - Or just a razor instead...
• My first jury duty experience; Courthouse needs more art
• The National Gruntledness Index
• Map of the Languages of Europe
• A new change in Washington, DC's imagery on Google's servers
• Map of American Casualties
• geographic dimensions of spam