Complementing the map of 'banana' reaching Europe from New Guinea, here's one that went the other way: the Germanic word 'soap' reached Aboriginal Australian languages before the English set foot in Australia.2yr ⋅ LlST- ⋅ r/etymologymaps
Horses may have been replaced by cars on the roads, but the words are actually (distantly) related [oc]3yr ⋅ LlST- ⋅ r/MapPorn
Gender of the subject (he or she) of some verbs in English books, 1950 to 2020 [OC]2yr ⋅ LlST- ⋅ r/dataisbeautiful
Gamal, Ustras, Tebe & Lakda - how four words for camel spread across the Old World over the last few thousand years [OC]2yr ⋅ LlST- ⋅ r/MapPorn
Mapping the 'migration' of the PIE phoneme *gw across the IPA table, in descendants of the word *gwen (woman). Descendant languages changed it to at least 16 different sounds, and none of them preserved the original /gw/2yr ⋅ LlST- ⋅ r/linguistics
Gamal, Ustras, Tebe & Lakda - how four words for camel spread across the Old World over the last few thousand years [OC]2yr ⋅ LlST- ⋅ r/etymologymaps
You know you're a north-west Oklahoma panhandle resident if you say this 💯💯💯1yr ⋅ LlST- ⋅ r/linguisticshumor
[OC] Wheel and Rickshaw are related - *kwekwlos is the only word I know to have spread to the same language via separate East and West routes, essentially circumnavigating the globe2yr ⋅ LlST- ⋅ r/etymologymaps
Change in pronunciation of the English word water from 2000AD to 3000AD, in different dialects of English (details in comments)3yr ⋅ LlST- ⋅ r/conlangs
Ancestors of the Big Five Language Families - descendants of these five languages are spoken natively by 85% of people, and make up the majority of languages spoken today. [oc]1yr ⋅ LlST- ⋅ r/LinguisticMaps
Horses may have been replaced by cars on the roads, but the words are actually (distantly) related [oc]3yr ⋅ LlST- ⋅ r/etymologymaps
Europe in 1500AD, after reconquista fails, leading ultimately to the spread of Islam into western Europe in the middle ages [details in comments]4yr ⋅ LlST- ⋅ r/AlternateHistory
Descendants of the Latin word coquina (kitchen) in Europe and beyond [OC]4yr ⋅ LlST- ⋅ r/LinguisticMaps
We would never evolve grammatical gender or vowel harmony, right? Right? 😳😳😳2yr ⋅ LlST- ⋅ r/linguisticshumor
Language families of Europe, if the Indo-European expansion into Europe had never happened3yr ⋅ LlST- ⋅ r/imaginarymaps
How a word for banana from Papua New Guinea spread with ancient trade routes, becoming the scientific name for the banana genus. The Trans-New-Guinea word is also the source of the regular word for banan in languages like Turkish, Somali and Amharic2yr ⋅ LlST- ⋅ r/etymologymaps
The Serbian 'bicak' and the Navajo 'beesh' both mean 'knife, and may reflect a common Wanderwort origin, spreading across the Northern Hemisphere over the last few thousand years [OC]8mo ⋅ LlST- ⋅ r/etymologymaps
Kuru - a potential ancient pan-African Wanderwort, meaning tortoise [OC]1yr ⋅ LlST- ⋅ r/etymologymaps
Descendants of Middle English [doxteɻ] 'daughter', in accents of Britain and Ireland [OC]3yr ⋅ LlST- ⋅ r/etymologymaps
European words for 'weasel' (the animal) that derive from words referring to women [OC]1yr ⋅ LlST- ⋅ r/etymologymaps
There are more languages native to the green area than to the pink area - the Caucasus, Himalays, and SE Asia are the most linguistically diverse parts of Eurasia [OC]4yr ⋅ LlST- ⋅ r/LinguisticMaps
Earliest Written Attestation of Every Language Family/Isolate in Eurasia [OC]1yr ⋅ LlST- ⋅ r/LinguisticMaps
Spread of the word for '[Cooking] Pot' through the indigenous languages of the Andaman Islands [OC]1yr ⋅ LlST- ⋅ r/etymologymaps
Geographic expansion of the Indo-European word for 'three', according to the new Caucasus homeland theory [OC]1yr ⋅ LlST- ⋅ r/etymologymaps
'Travel Guide to the Roman Empire' - how to say 'brother' in regional languages of the empire, circa 1AD [OC]1yr ⋅ LlST- ⋅ r/LinguisticMaps
While Australia is home to 100s of aboriginal languages, a single language - the Western Desert Language - covered a quarter of the continent, making it one of the world's most geographically widespread languages [OC]11mo ⋅ LlST- ⋅ r/LinguisticMaps
Pre-Indo-Iranian Languages - map of the attested languages that preceded the expansion of Indo-Iranian across South Asia.2yr ⋅ LlST- ⋅ r/LinguisticMaps
Ancestors of the Big Five Language Families - descendants of these five languages are spoken natively by 85% of people, and make up the majority of languages spoken today. [oc]1yr ⋅ LlST- ⋅ r/MapPorn
Diffusion of the Ancient Egyptian word for 'date' (the fruit) across much of Africa [OC]1yr ⋅ LlST- ⋅ r/etymologymaps
As early Indo-Europeans spread across Eurasia, they borrowed words for unfamiliar (and sometimes, familiar) animals from the pre-existing languages. Map shows some of these words in each Indo-European branch. [OC]1yr ⋅ LlST- ⋅ r/etymologymaps
Non-Latin-derived words in the core vocabularies of modern Romance languages [OC]2yr ⋅ LlST- ⋅ r/LinguisticMaps
Traditional pronunciation of the wh sound, as in where, based on survey data collected in the late 19th century2yr ⋅ LlST- ⋅ r/MapPorn
How crosslinguistically 'normal' each language's phonology (sound system) is [OC]4yr ⋅ LlST- ⋅ r/LinguisticMaps
'Travel Guide to the Roman Empire' - how to say 'brother' in regional languages of the empire, circa 1AD [OC]1yr ⋅ LlST- ⋅ r/MapPorn
Europe in 1500AD, after reconquista fails, leading ultimately to the spread of Islam into western Europe in the middle ages [details in comments]4yr ⋅ LlST- ⋅ r/imaginarymaps
Non-Latin-derived words in the core vocabularies of modern Romance languages [OC]2yr ⋅ LlST- ⋅ r/MapPorn
Map of some animal words in each Indo-European branch that are borrowed from non-Indo-European substrate/neighbouring languages1yr ⋅ LlST- ⋅ r/IndoEuropean
There are more languages native to the green area than to the pink area - the Caucasus, Himalays, and SE Asia are the most linguistically diverse parts of Eurasia [OC]4yr ⋅ LlST- ⋅ r/MapPorn
Language Families of New Guinea, the most linguistically diverse region of the world [OC]4yr ⋅ LlST- ⋅ r/MapPorn
