http://WarLight.net/SinglePlayer.aspx?PreviewMap=12724

This is the first map I ever made and my first Inkscape experience. What do you guys think about it? Do you like it or not? And do you think it's worthwile going public?

It's very nice, I think you should go public with it!

I like the idea of it, and it could be fun to play on.

I'd suggest including mainland Turkey into the Turkish territory however, just for aesthetic purposes.

agree with clavius

I love the concept of using language groups! I look forward to playing this map!

I "magnar" country in romania some sort of teleport because it seems to link to countries that aren't bordered :D

Ah I seem to be wrong - it is part of hungary :-) Nice map anyways!

Some territories seem to be named in their language with english in (parentheses), but some territories are named in their language without the english. You should make all of the territories the same.

also some territories are capitalized and some arent.

*Clavicus: mainland Turkey included
*Major Risk: Indeed, there is a big minority of hungarian speaking people in that area.
*JAM: For every territory, I used the name of the language in the language in itself. This means that:
- for the places where they don't use the latin script, I included English for simplicity. For the other ones, I didn't. This seemed logical to me.
-Indeed, some territories, like "français" are not capitalized because in their own language (being French in this example), you don't write languages with a capital letter. (So it is "anglais, néerlandais, allemand ... ) I know this is particulary true for French but for the others, I had to check wikipedia. However, if anyone notices a mistake, please tell me.

Danish should be Dansk.
Also I think you might want to name the Euskara bonus Iberian language(s), which is a little disputable, but certainly less pejorative than Isolate.

And what about "Unique language" instead of Isolate? Though I don't really see your point in saying it's pejorative to call it an isolate. As far as wikipedia tells me, 'isolate' is a correct term to describe a language that isn't coneccted to any other in the entire world.

|> Indeed, some territories, like "français" are not capitalized because in their own language (being French in this example), you don't write languages with a capital letter. (So it is "anglais, néerlandais, allemand ... )

But you're using the word as a name. If you have a map with a territory called "Castle", you would capitalise it, even though English normally doesn't capitalise nouns (unlike, for instance, German). Also, even if there's a good reason behind it, it's rather obscure and non-obvious, making it *look* inconsistent even if it's not. So I'd suggest capitalising all territory names anyway. But, it's just a suggestion; ultimately it's your decision.

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Euskara is the Basque language, right? The only correct name for that bonus would indeed be "Isolate", that's the term used by language science.
My apologies for saying this Domenico, but calling it "Iberian" is not simply "disputable", it's wrong. Half of the Basque-speaking region is in France (not on the Iberian peninsula) and the large majority of the Iberian peninsula doesn't speak Basque. If Hungarian wasn't related to Finnish, you wouldn't propose to call the Hungarian bonus "Balkan" either, would you?
Finally, I don't think there's anything pejorative about "Isolate". Just like, for instance, "Lower Saxon" is in no way pejorative.

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Really interesting concept, great idea!

I like it, but one thing i dont get is what is Uralic meaning?
Anyways the map is boss, and I think you should show it to public, its alot better then some maps...

I like how you showed where languges clashed. Its a good map

@m1919:

The Ural is a mountain range, essentially it's the division between Europe and Asia. It gave its name to a group of languages which (I assume) developed somewhere in that general vicinity, making them the Uralic language group. Members of this group (which is quite distinct from other language groups) are Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian (even though Hungary is a fair distance away from Finland and Estonia, with the countries in between speaking completely different (Slavic) languages) and Sami (nomadic tribes, if you happen to be from North America the easiest, semi-accurate comparison is probably Indians / Eskimos, which live in the Northern parts of Finland, Sweden and Norway).

While I am aware that Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland often get bunched up in "Scandinavia" and there are major similarities between those countries and cultures, Finland has a completely different language. Danish, Swedish and Norwegian are all very similar (speaking one will make it relatively easy to learn any of the others), but this is not at all the case with Finnish; speaking all of the first three fluently does not help you in the slightest if you were to try and learn Finnish.

Well, RvW, you seem to know a lot about it and as far as I know all you tell is correct. Also, your capitalization argument seems fine to me. I'll change it today or tomorrow. Any more comments are welcome.

Nice map and very good idea. Maybe you can place some other uralic language territory wich are in the european side of Russia, like nyenyec, komi, mari, or udmurt.

http://hu.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=F%C3%A1jl:Oeraals_verspreiding-af.svg&filetimestamp=20090305225615

I love the idea, but can I ask why some of the borders look like a square wave? Is it because those languages overlap in those areas?

I do wonder why that map is in Afrikaans when it's about your language family...
Also, what status do these extra Uralic languages have in Russia?

Anyhow, I must have been misinformed, because as far as I knew, because Basque is the only remaining language of those spoken on the peninsula before the Romans came, it was called Iberian.
Naturally, if *Isolate*'s the word, it's the word.

Also, there is a little part of Sardinia where Catalan is spoken, so I think the two languages should at least connect.
Also, you didn't use Occidental or Allemannisch. I'm not sure what their status is, but if it's like the status of e.g. Sardinian or Frisian, then you do have to add those, of course.