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several things wrong on this map[edit]
it seems that i cannot edit this map, so i have to use words:
- the title of the map should indicate a specific century or at least "early middle age", because the middle age was a time of large scale assimilation and colonisation processes which constantly altered the distribution of languages
- errors concerning the border to the romance speaking areas:
- latin in britain got extinct due to the inmigration of germanic tribes
- the romance linguistic islands at the mosel river and in the tennengau south of salzburg continued to exist until the high middle ages
- the french jura mountains never were german speaking
- the german speaking area of early middle age switzerland included the upper wallis valley, but not waadt, neuenburg, graubündenn
- in the early middle ages, liechtenstein and vorarlberg were still romance speaking
- in tirol (north and south), the main valleys were german speaking as early as the 6th century, while the other valleys got assimilated during the middle ages
- if the lombards are considered to be part of high german, the map should as well account for the numerous lombard settlements in northern italy
- errors concerning the border to the slavic speaking area:
- the slavs did not reach the north sea coast nor denmark, only lolland
- in germany the border followed approximately the former iron curtain to the south
- in bavaria the upper most main valley was slavic speaking
- from regensburg to linz, the area northeast of the danube river was slavic speaking, also bohemia
- the lowlands of upper austria were german speaking, the other parts slavic
- in salzburg, the ennspongau, the gastein valley, and the area around mittersill were slavic speaking
- east tirol was mixed romance/slavic speaking, except for the pustertal which was german speaking