LANGUAGES OF SOUTH ASIA
A language map of Asia, from "Synopsis universae philologiae" (J. B. Homann heirs, Nuremberg, c.1741)
*A language map of India prepared for the missionary projects at Serampore, 1822*
Source: http://www.wmcarey.edu/carey/maps/maps.htm
(downloaded Dec. 2004)
"The map is labeled across the lower margin from left to right (1)
The
Edinburgh Geographical Institute (2) J.G. Bartholomew. The map legend
in
the lower left map area shows (1) Eranian Languages in pink shading (2)
Pisacha Languages in brown shading (3) Midland Indo-Aryan Languages in
yellow shading (4) Outer Indo-Aryan Languages in blue shading and (5)
Intermediate
Indo-Aryan Languages in green shading. It is then noted “NOTE: The
Shading
of the Intermediate Languages (Green) is intended to illustrate
approximately
the Local Influence of Midland and of Outer Languages."
*How the language map looked to Constable, in 1893*
Source: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~poyntz/India/maps.html#area
(downloaded Oct. 2005)
A language map from "A Historical Atlas of South Asia," Oxford
University
Press (New York), 1992, courtesy of Himal Magazine; CLICK ON THE MAP
FOR
A VERY LARGE SCAN.
The map seems to be a modified form of one of the the
Schwartzberg online atlas ones, which are in highly ZOOMABLE form *p.
100*
Source: http://www.himalmag.com/2003/april/map_of_the_month.htm
(downloaded Apr. 2006)
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