• Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyzdeleted by creator
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    2 个月前

    So, to make the families a bit easier to see, I recoloured some stuff and moved the labels around. Same info as before.

    A few details:

    • “Caucasian” isn’t a single family, but three: Kartvelian (South Caucasian), Caspian (NE Caucasian), Circassian (NW Caucasian).
    • The “American Indian” group there includes at least a dozen families. The number is a bit messy to determine, because often linguists disagree if two families are related (thus branches of a larger family) or not.
    • The map is colouring creoles the same as the lexifier language (e.g. Haitian as related to French, thus Indo-European), but note they’re typically considered their own things.
    • kunegis@mander.xyz
      3·
      2 个月前

      I think the Thai script may derive from some Sanskrit-related script, but the Thai language itself is in a family called the Kra–Dai languages, formerly known as Tai–Kadai

    • Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyzdeleted by creator
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      1 个月前

      Like kunegis said, Thai is in another family. Geographically speaking the nearest native Indo-European languages in the region are Assamese and Bengali, but even then they’re, like, 500? kilometres to the west.