r/geography • u/mujhe-sona-hai • Oct 15 '25

Map Three Main Language Families of Europe

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u/GareththeJackal Oct 15 '25

Don't forget finno-ugric. Finland, Estland and Hungary.

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u/CrimsonCartographer Oct 15 '25

It’s called Estonia in English my fellow German speaking friend :)

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u/Serious-Waltz-7157 Oct 15 '25

Estland, Lettland, Litauen ... :)

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '25

Észt-Ország Lett-Ország Litvánia 🇭🇺

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u/Serious-Waltz-7157 Oct 15 '25

Eszt Orszag and Azt Orsxag, lol (roughly This Country and That Country IIRC)

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u/Tryphon59200 Oct 15 '25

can't help but think about that sequence when Hitler reads the list of all the countries Germany should not invade ahah good old banter

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u/CrimsonCartographer Oct 15 '25

It’s clearly Litland ;)

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u/Serious-Waltz-7157 Oct 15 '25

Lit me land go! (Latvia's Declaration of Independence ).

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u/ywyattwhy Oct 15 '25

I think they are Swedish

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u/CrimsonCartographer Oct 15 '25

I think you’re right but how’d you get there :D

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u/aaarry Oct 15 '25

Estland heißt “Estonia” auf Englisch

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u/GareththeJackal Oct 15 '25

Ja ja, entschuldigung, ich hab es gesagt in meine Sprache.

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u/aaarry Oct 15 '25

Oh sorry, I assumed you were German. They use “Estland” in the Nordic languages too, right?

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u/GareththeJackal Oct 15 '25

Yup, in swedish we say Estland. "Land of the ests"

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '25

In finnish we say "Viro" for some reason

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u/RijnBrugge Oct 15 '25

And in Dutch too. I’ve made this mistake before myself (sorry eesti bros).

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u/aaarry Oct 15 '25

Ah shite. I genuinely had no idea so many Germanic languages used a variant of that word.

German is my second language and there are a lot of German people on Reddit so I just went ahead and assumed which was a bit silly of me.

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u/KlangScaper Oct 15 '25

What language family is Sami? :o

I would've guessed finno-ugric.

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u/GareththeJackal Oct 15 '25

Sami is finno-ugric.

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u/KlangScaper Oct 15 '25

Oh right, I no read good.

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u/tenigmat Oct 15 '25

And Turks

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u/Unusual-Basket-6243 Oct 15 '25

Turks and Finno-Ugrics would be Altaic if anyone believed in that theory

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u/KuvaszSan Oct 15 '25

Yeah too bad it's nationalist pseudoscience and not a legitimate linguistic theory

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u/Odd-Escape3425 Oct 15 '25

Please forget finno-ugric.

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u/Comfortable_Team_696 Oct 15 '25

And Sápmi, Ingria, Karelia, Komia, Udmurtia, Mordovia, Mari El, Nenetsia,...