A regional index, not a map of who speaks what.
Each marker is a broad regional centroid drawn from a language record in the Atlas. It is not a claim about where the language is spoken today, nor about a language’s “home.” Languages exist in diaspora, in contact zones, and across borders; this canvas cannot represent that and does not try to.
Markers are broad regional centroids drawn from documented language records, not speaker distributions and not claims of a language’s “home.” A larger dot means more capabilities are documented in the Atlas for that language, nothing more. Any language without recorded coordinates is intentionally omitted here and appears only in the list view.
- JapaneseEast Asia
- KoreanEast Asia
- Mandarin ChineseEast Asia
- TurkishWestern Asia · Southeastern Europe
- Quechuan varietiesSouth America
- TuyucaSouth America
- TarianaSouth America
- JavaneseSoutheast Asia
Languages without a recorded regional centroid are intentionally absent from the canvas rather than placed by guesswork. They remain fully visible in the list views.