File talk:Historical West Germanic language area.png

several things wrong on this map

it seems that i cannot edit this map, so i have to use words:

• the title of the map should indicate a specific century or at least "early middle age", because the middle age was a time of large scale assimilation and colonisation processes which constantly altered the distribution of languages
• errors concerning the border to the romance speaking areas:
  • latin in britain got extinct due to the inmigration of germanic tribes
  • the romance linguistic islands at the mosel river and in the tennengau south of salzburg continued to exist until the high middle ages
  • the french jura mountains never were german speaking
  • the german speaking area of early middle age switzerland included the upper wallis valley, but not waadt, neuenburg, graubündenn
  • in the early middle ages, liechtenstein and vorarlberg were still romance speaking
  • in tirol (north and south), the main valleys were german speaking as early as the 6th century, while the other valleys got assimilated during the middle ages
  • if the lombards are considered to be part of high german, the map should as well account for the numerous lombard settlements in northern italy
• errors concerning the border to the slavic speaking area:
  • the slavs did not reach the north sea coast nor denmark, only lolland
  • in germany the border followed approximately the former iron curtain to the south
  • in bavaria the upper most main valley was slavic speaking
  • from regensburg to linz, the area northeast of the danube river was slavic speaking, also bohemia
  • the lowlands of upper austria were german speaking, the other parts slavic
  • in salzburg, the ennspongau, the gastein valley, and the area around mittersill were slavic speaking
  • east tirol was mixed romance/slavic speaking, except for the pustertal which was german speaking

77.119.198.109 05:28, 12 May 2024 (UTC)