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Africa has Germanic (Afrikans?), but not Romance (Portuguese)

I have a problem with this map. Why is there a Germanic spot in Africa (I assume it's Afrikans) but there is no Romance area in the same continent, where Portuguese is spoken in several countries? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.117.20.145 (talk • contribs)

Because Portuguese is spoken alongside the indigenous languages, while Afrikaans is the sole effectively indigenous language in western South Africa. (Note that Portuguese is also spoken in Europe and Brazil, while Afrikaans has no non-African "homeland". Therefore I call it "effectively indigenous" – it is much more different from Dutch than Portuguese in Africa is from European Portuguese; Afrikaans is considered a language of its own, unlike Portuguese in Africa.) --Florian Blaschke (talk) 13:16, 5 June 2015 (UTC)

A dozen colors for Indo-European subfamilies, but “Caucasian”, “American Indian”, “Paleo-Siberian”, “Australian” or “Papuan” ? Give me a break. That’s not a map, that’s a colonialist trainwreck which lacks any reasonable degree of accuracy. --Janwo ^Disk./_Mail 16:48, 1 June 2017 (UTC)

@Janwo: You're welcome to attempt to create a more accurate map based on this one, but from a cartographic point of view, showing all the indigenous language families (most of which are spoken in tiny regions and on the brink of extinction) accurately is not feasible, so a colonialist worldview is not the (sole, in any case) reason to refrain from showing all language families separately, no matter how small. --Florian Blaschke (talk) 14:36, 1 October 2017 (UTC)

Azerbaijan

This map shows Azerbaijan speaking Georgian, actually their language is Turkic. WereSpielChequers (talk) 19:38, 9 August 2016 (UTC)