MidEast language map

January 19, 2006 9:09 PM

I'd like to find a map of languages spoken in the Middle East. At least the major languages: Arabic, Farsi, etc. Anyone got better google-fu skills than me?
posted by zardoz to writing & language (5 comments total)

Here's one.
posted by tellurian at 9:27 PM on January 19, 2006

More comprehensive information and maps here.
posted by tellurian at 9:51 PM on January 19, 2006

Actually, that Ethnologue map (from tellurian's second link) is surprisingly useless. I couldn't even figure out what it was supposed to be representing, and I know a lot about this stuff.

The first link, on the other hand, is very nice: it simplifies, of course (languages don't come in neat, mutually exclusive packages), but it gives the basic situation at a glance. And I had no idea Berber extended almost to the Egyptian border.
posted by languagehat at 5:55 AM on January 20, 2006

I thought they spoke Turkish in Turkey.
posted by smackfu at 6:43 AM on January 20, 2006

I think they've got the colours of Baluch and Turkish (Western) switched on the legend.
posted by mcwetboy at 7:03 AM on January 20, 2006