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There is a mistake on this map. The North Frisian language ist spoken south of the german-danish bordner, not north of it. Someone who knows how to do this should change this, please. For further details feel free to contact me, best on the de.wikipedia.org --Beliar (talk) 23:04, 13 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Intent of the map/Autotranslate[edit]

I reverted the map to the prior version. The intent of the map was to show the spread of Germanic language groups in Europe. A map of the actual languages can be found here. Also, it's inaccurate to exclude areas where a minority of the population speaks a Celtic language. In areas where the majority does not speak English, the original map-maker stippled areas where a Germanic language is official.

I've had to remove the Spanish and Esperanto versions which were added in the meantime. I will try to restore them them with the old key, when I have more time (I'm preparing to move countries right now). But it looks like these versions were originally done in Autotranslate. This template seems like more trouble than it's worth to translate one file. But if anyone is familiar with this template and wants to do my work for me, I am of course grateful. --Quintucket (talk) 06:47, 26 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Irish[edit]

Maybe Scottish not, but i think Irish is a different language compared to English. --Tn4196 (talk) 17:14, 31 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Both Irish Gaelic and Scottish Gaelic are spoken in rather small regions now... AnonMoos (talk) 20:55, 31 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Swedish and norwegian[edit]

I do not believe that there is a mix between norwegian and swedish in the swedish borders areas as it is shown here. I urge User:Fobos92 to either provide realiable sources, or change the map to reflect languages as to follow borders. Bw --Morten Haugen (talk) 17:24, 12 October 2014 (UTC) (pinging User:Dyveldi and User:Jeblad)[reply]

South Tyrol (Südtirol)[edit]

The northernmost Italian region South Tyrol (in its native German Südtirol) is to be added in the same color as neighboring Austrian Tyrol since it has a 70 per cent native German-speaking majority and is culturally, albeit not politically, Austrian. 2A06:4944:10FE:FE00:B08F:EA0:B90A:B7F1 13:41, 17 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Low German[edit]

The Low German area shown here seems to have combined Low German and Central German (a transitional dialect that is nevertheless regarded as being part of the High German grouping) and is thus far too big (c.f. File:Nds_Spraakrebeet_na1945.svg). This is not even taking into account the fact that in most of its traditional homeland Low German is now only spoken by a minority of the population, having been dominated by standard Dutch and standard (High) German, respectively (and according to the WP page, there are actually thought to be more speakers in the Netherlands than in Germany). In any case, Low German is defined as being North of the Benrath and Uerdingen isoglosses and this map does not reflect that. Helrasincke (talk) 09:26, 3 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Swedish-speaking Finland[edit]

Please update the map of Finland. There are a lot of wrong maps on Finland, this is the most accurate. File:Svenskspråkiga folk i Finland.png 84.248.216.240 13:59, 6 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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