I am working on a database of oases on the world and I want to use it to study the cultural and biological diversity. I would like to use a map of the spoken languages of the world to estimate the cultural diversity. Have you ever worked with a map of the human population languages? Where can I find it?
(I already try google)
Thank you!
No, I haven't. Maybe worldwide institutions such as United Nations can give you that information.
We still use the referential works in anthropology and other social sciences by George Peter Murdock. Ethnographic Atlas (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburg Press, 1969), and Atlas of World Cultures (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburg Press, 1981). These two Atlas gives you 1.264 languages (a lot have disappeared in the last decades) and 563 different societies, plus a very complex system for coding languages and cultures still in use. From these two Atlas, David H. Price published a geographical Atlas of World Cultures (London: Sage, 1989) with detailed maps, some that I am attaching to you. These are the references for world cultures and languages since we don't have better ethnographic information nowadays; on the contrary, we did not protect several languages and cultures inventoried by Murdoch Atlas.
Have you seen? -
World Map of Languages - Bing images - https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=World+Map+of+Languages&form=IARSLK&first=1&tsc=ImageBasicHover > [I'm sure you will find something there to interest you !]
... It would of course be impossible to include every language spoken. But you could select and look at each continent in turn, or just focus on the different families.
No, I haven't. I am so sorry. But I think..you can use Cenk Tan or Ivo Carneiro de Sousa answered
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