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A cool guide for old world language family tree

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Not sure if mentioned in reddit since I dont go there but this originates from a web comic http://sssscomic.com

It is pretty cool comic, check it out

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- ETA: context lol
  
  Stand Still Stay Silent is bleak as fuck but I ended up loving it because of Lalli and Reynir
  
  Sadly, ended in 2022 because the author decided "Chick Tracts but cute" (it's called Lovely People if you're curious/crazy enough to check it out) was a better use of her time. 😔
  
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  2022 update: Since SSSS has now ended you'll be able to find me and my future comic projects through. my personal artist website. I might remember to update this spot once I start my next larger comic project (which will certainly be very influenced by my newfound Christian outlook on life and meaning.)
  
  Oh, fuck, no you were serious
  
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Fun fact, despite being more closely related, German is considered somewhat harder to learn for English speakers than Romance languages (Spanish, French, Italian, Romanian). Due to historical events, conquests, migration, etc, more than half of our vocabulary derives from Latin (and a good chunk of that is from French).

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Almost half of them are spoken in single country India.

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Chinese? Japanese? Vietnamese? Hawaiian? Aboriginal Australian? Navajo?

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- Those are of different language trees and are unrelated, though some researchers have tried to claim that Chinese and other Asiatic languages share a common ancestor with these, it's not widely accepted and nearly impossible to prove.
  
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  Why is there Uralic then?
  
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- These are indo-european languages, I am sure you could do one for sino-tibetan if you feel like it.
  
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  Then where's Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam. Thought I'd see it around Sinhalese but they're missing. No south india representation :(
  
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  considering theres a small uralic bush the inconsistency is reasonable to point out
  
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- I would guess that none of those are "old world languages". Those would be on a completely separate tree.
  
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  Old world == afroeurasia
  
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Old world except for most of the world

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- i was gonna say the same thing but to be fair the image itself is properly titled: this is a guide to nordic languages in their old world families.
  
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  I was just going by the post title rather than what's in the image.
  
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- Its from a post-apocalyptic comic taking place somewhere in Scandinavia.
  
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Where does Latin fit in?

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- From Wikipedia:
  
  Latin is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.
  
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin
  
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- It's basically the thick romance branch.
  
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What is "year 0"?

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- This is from an online comic called Stand Still, Stay Silent. Year 0 is the year, well, the year everything changed for the Nordic countries.
  
  It's a gorgeous story, for any who might be interested!
  
  https://sssscomic.com/comic.php?page=1
  
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  Here's the full original comic page of the map:
  
  https://sssscomic.com/comic.php?page=196
  
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- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomical_year_numbering
  
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  I thought of that but, no, that tree includes languages that didn't exist then.
  
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Ahh, yes, the Albanian Albanian branch is my personal favourite.

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Fun Fact: I believe that one running hypothesis relating to the origin of the Indo-European Languages traces its lineage back to the Yamnaya culture. 'Yamnaya' in Russian ('Я́мная') translates to "relating to pits", because some of the most noteable artifacts of this culture are their pit burial sites.

I'm still reading about them atm.

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- What is the accent on Я? (I’m a beginner Russian student and never cane across that so far)
  
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  'Ya'
  
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So this is a huge pet peeve of mine: Flemish is not a separate language. It refers to a region inside of Belgium where Dutch is the official language. The Dutch and the Flemish share the same standard language.

I know dialects exist, and those can be considered a language on their own, but there is no unified Flemish dialect. West-Flemish for example is distinctly different from other dialects spoken in Flanders like Brabandic or Limburgish, and variants of Limburgish and Brabandic dialects are spoken in large areas of the Netherlands as well. So it doesn't make sense to create a distinction between "Dutch" and "Flemish".

The differences are on the level of American English vs. Australian English vs. British English. Or Austrian German vs. Swiss German vs. Bavarian German vs. North German ... So if those are not singled out, it doesn't make sense to separate Flemish from Dutch.

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