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Actual source: Héran, Filhon & Deprez, “La dynamique des langues en France au fil du XXe siècle”, INED / Population & Sociétés, n°376, 2002.
NB: Non Standard French should be understood as Not(Standard French). By contrast with the official Standard French.
NB2: Given the tsunami of comment saying that the map is "wrong" (data is like that), it must be stated that the area cut within the map are French departments witch is not fine-grained enough to see linguistic border at the level of villages. See this map to understand for the Basque part : https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyr%C3%A9n%C3%A9es-Atlantiques#/media/Fichier:Euskararen_atzerakada_(Pyr%C3%A9n%C3%A9es_Atlantiques).png
New format, hope you like it, I spent lot of time creating this template.
Is this one better than an only European one? (I had to leave languages like Sami, Komi, Icelandic or Faroese to add new ones like Hindi, Tibetan, Kazakh, Uzbek, Kyrgyz, Turkmen, Tamil, etc...)
Tell me any correction for both words and linguistic borders.
(The full version of the map includes all of Germany)
This is the first map that brings together, in a single image, the diversity of Nahuatl spoken and documented exclusively in Mexico. This cartographic work encompasses both living and historical variants and shows their presence according to municipal boundaries.
The result is the fruit of rigorous research in colonial, linguistic, and ethnographic sources, allowing us to visualize not only where Nahuatl is spoken today, but also where it was spoken for centuries (although it does not include Central American varieties, as the title indicates). [Original post in Nahuatl subreddit]
*Could Sanskrit as a language been intentionally designed to shape and to interact with human biology?**
I’ve been thinking about the possibility that Sanskrit verses and mantras were not only meant for meaning, but also for **sound, vibration, breath, and nervous-system effects**. For example, sounds like *Om* or humming-like recitations seem to resonate physically in the throat and body, and chanting in groups can create a powerful psychological effect.
This makes me wonder whether Sanskrit, or at least mantra recitation traditions, were designed in a way that deliberately works with human biology , influencing the nervous system, the organs, the hormones, the brain systems — influencing attention, emotion, and inner state through sound rather than meaning alone.
I’d be interested in hearing:
- Whether there is any historical or linguistic evidence for this idea.
- OR Has anyone even asked the question?
- Whether this can become a scientific investigation?
- Whether the biological effects of chanting could explain why sound was emphasized so strongly in these