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    1. kolyafabrika on

      > Be sure to add a comment that states the data source AND tool(s) used to create the visualization.

      Wikipedia, Figma. Happy New Year!

    3. 20max00 on

      Uh the native names of Norwegian Swedish Flemish and Dutch are mixed up. But very interesting graph!

    5. NondeterministSystem on

      The difference in lengths between Sumer and Hebrew is essentially the entire plot of the cyberpunk novel *Snow Crash*.

      It’s a weird book.

    9. fasterthanraito on

      Hamitic is not a scientific word, it is a biblical term.

      The correct name is “AfroAsiatic” for the family that includes Semitic branch

    11. Nearby_Week_2725 on

      Why are the Indo-European languages not shown having a common ancestor?

      The Germanic languages are mislabeled.

      The selection of languages strikes me as odd. While some local variants like Flemish, Venetian and Occitan are included, national languages like Luxembourgish and Faroese are omitted. The very obscure and extinct language Norn is on there, so a smaller of speakers can’t really be the reason…

      It’s a very beautiful graph, but the selection of data doesn’t make much sense to me.

    12. iShakeMyHeadAtYou on

      This is amazing, but I’d love a higher quality version so i can read the event bubbles!!

    13. tyen0 on

      This might be better suited to /r/Infographics. It’s pretty, but it does not fit the rules of this sub for automatically computer generated visualizations.

    14. VulcanTrekkie45 on

      Doric didn’t go extinct. It’s still spoken in a few isolated villages where it’s known as Tsakonian

    15. pjo33 on

      Theres no fucking way i zoom in on a chart about all Languages in the history of Mankind and the very first Word i see is the N-Word

    17. LakeMegaChad on

      u/koylafabrika great work! Just to clarify, Hokkien (Quanzhang) and Min Nan (don’t branch from each other as much as Hokkien is a subgroup of Min Nan. While their etymological roots confusingly refer to overlapping places, and the non-Hokkien Min Nan languages like Teochew (Chaoshan) are only partially mutually intelligible with Hokkien, Hokkien and Min Nan in commonplace become more or less interchangeable terms.

      I recommend changing either Min Nan with Fuzhounese, another more specific language like Hokkien (Quanzhang), or Hokkien with Min Dong (Eastern Min), the analogous group for Fuzhounese.