I'd like a poster of linguistic geneaology

April 5, 2004 10:34 AM

The other day I was looking at my dictionary. At the back is a diagram of linguistic geneaology. As in, Spanish comes from Latin comes from... Does anybody know where I could find a large poster version of this sort of thing? (More Inside)

Ideally, it would contain all major human languages (not just European, which the dictionary one did) and maybe even pictures of the script used. I just found the diagram very interesting and would love to put one on my wall. Many thanks.

posted by shotsy to Writing & Language (4 answers total)

Don't know about a poster, but Cavalli-Sforza's Genes, Peoples and Languages has a decent tree. So does Wikipedia. As well as this resource.
posted by Gyan at 11:00 AM on April 5, 2004

The Exploratorium Store has what you're looking for.
posted by falconred at 11:11 AM on April 5, 2004

An excellent resource is the Ethnologue site, which provides management and analysis tools for linguists and has a huge database available online.
posted by cbrody at 11:24 AM on April 5, 2004

Response by poster: Thank you all. I will look into all of this further tonight.
posted by shotsy at 1:44 PM on April 5, 2004