Can you name all the world's language families on the map below?
Isolates, creoles, pidgins, and unclassified languages are not included.
The distinctions between families leans conservative (meaning no Nilo-Saharan) but is ultimately still arbitrary.
Extinct families are not included, with the exception of language families indigenous to areas that have undergone colonisation, where the most recent pre-contact distribution of languages is shown on the map.
Amazing quiz, but I think you should update a few things
1. The Utian (Miwok-Costanoan) family is accepted by Glottolog and Ethnologue, so I think it should be added.
2. Tasmanian is not actually a family, but a geographic grouping
3. I know you said that this quiz is subjective, but I think you should split apart Darwin region and Northeast Sudanic as they are not very well proven.
utian was split by accident, I was working on the svgs for this and the subfamilies quiz concurrently and I neglected to merge them for this quiz. they should be covered by the same type-ins now. I felt like this was too minor a change to edit the whole svg for considering uploading/compressing it was a whole ordeal and a half, so while they'll appear split they should functionally be merged now.
I put tasmanian & darwin as a single family just for convenience's sake.
the decision to include NE sudanic was meant as a compromise between completely splitting up east sudanic or having all of it. the latter is probably the more 'better known' classification and the former I felt was too unwieldy. I know this is arbitrary and subjective but there are dozens of decisions like this that I made and I really think this is a major flaw of the quiz. I definitely want to revisit it and completely rethink the classifications more objectively sometime in the future.
1. The Utian (Miwok-Costanoan) family is accepted by Glottolog and Ethnologue, so I think it should be added.
2. Tasmanian is not actually a family, but a geographic grouping
3. I know you said that this quiz is subjective, but I think you should split apart Darwin region and Northeast Sudanic as they are not very well proven.
utian was split by accident, I was working on the svgs for this and the subfamilies quiz concurrently and I neglected to merge them for this quiz. they should be covered by the same type-ins now. I felt like this was too minor a change to edit the whole svg for considering uploading/compressing it was a whole ordeal and a half, so while they'll appear split they should functionally be merged now.
I put tasmanian & darwin as a single family just for convenience's sake.
the decision to include NE sudanic was meant as a compromise between completely splitting up east sudanic or having all of it. the latter is probably the more 'better known' classification and the former I felt was too unwieldy. I know this is arbitrary and subjective but there are dozens of decisions like this that I made and I really think this is a major flaw of the quiz. I definitely want to revisit it and completely rethink the classifications more objectively sometime in the future.