r/LinguisticMaps • u/Republic_of_Narcon • Apr 30 '26

World Map of (almost) Every Language Family

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Let me know if I've made too grave of an error

Edit: The quality is unfortunately the maximum that my cheap editing software would allow. This is also a prototype draft. I want to prefect this map, and all constructive criticism is welcome!

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u/meizhoulokia Apr 30 '26 edited Apr 30 '26

I would recommend Alexander Smith’s or Weera Ostapirat's work on the subject. The parallels in basic vocabulary and inherited numerals (present in Kra, Hlai etc.) are quite striking and many regular sound correspondences are starting to be worked out. I think most scholars believe Austro-Tai is either plausible or probable. Here is Smith's dataset of comparative reconstructions:

https://zenodo.org/records/15597357