Im grünen Bereich gibt es mehr einheimische Sprachen als im rosa Bereich

“Each blue dot represents a language” so everyone in Eurasia can’t speak?

A tale from the region: the God got tired sowing languages and emptied his sack near Caucasus.

Source?

Yeah I am from Green area from Assam State in india and there are different languages in some villages with just 8,000 to 9,000 speakers like Tai languages like Khamti Turung and Khamyang while everyone can speak Assamess there are also various Kachari languages like Bodo ,Garo, Tiwa you could see people in same villages speaking several different languages

In the neighbouring states of Nagaland and Arunachal more then 150+ different languages are spoken

Where are the blue dots?

this is super interesting, thanks. so strange that theres such extreme variation when you consider that people have lived in different regions for similar amounts of time

Some big caveats;

* most of the 900 are Tibeto-burman languages.
* Tibeto burman has a few traits that lend towards rapid divergent shifts in language. Including:
* Mountain isolation
* Tones, which mean a slight change in pronunciation is the same as a new word. E.g. Saying Ta-May-To instead of To-Mah-to is akin to saying Bob instead of Tomato, just a completly different sound.
* Word order variance, most Tibeto-burman languages have a larger than usualy flexibility in the sentence order and structure, which can allow minor stylistic difference to have big structural differences e.g. you could optionally say either „I ate a Tomato“ or „Tomato I a ate“ in the same language.
* The differences here are technically no more extreme then minor dialect differences in a western language but combined can result in one town saying „I ate a tomato“ and another saying „Bob o er sole“ based off of extremly minor stylistic and accent choices.

The result is that two towns that speak the same language, can within a few generations speak languages so uninteligable it’s hard to tell they were ever related at all.

Depends on the historical period. Before the Indo-European, Semitic, Dravidian, and Sino-Tibetan expansions, it was almost certainly not the case.

In NE India you have a different tribe speaking a different language every new village you cross. It is a unique characteristic of the highland areas with high ethnolinguistic diversity and also extends to south east Asia.

This presents an interesting issue where the nation states are unable to completely assimilate these highly diverse groups to the mainstream society as they resist control from the central state. Many groups in NE India are thus given autonomy like the Mizos and Bodos. There are many insurgencies across this region who want to cut off their land from the central state.

There is no one clear majority in these areas and people here have lived in isolated groups since millenias, developing their own very unique languages and cultures that is completely different from the central, low-lying areas.

I am from NE India myself and have observed this since childhood but only recently became aware that there is actually a term for describing this unique phenomenon.

[It’s called Zomia or South East Asian Massif](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southeast_Asian_Massif)

Here’s a post that gives much more detail:
[https://www.reddit.com/r/LinguisticMaps/comments/1qpo7r2/these_hills_and_mountains_of_asia_may_contain/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button](https://www.reddit.com/r/LinguisticMaps/comments/1qpo7r2/these_hills_and_mountains_of_asia_may_contain/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)


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