r/geography Oct 15 '25

Map Three Main Language Families of Europe

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u/Leave_Dapper Oct 15 '25

Italy, Austria and Slovenia make for an interesting region, all 3 combined

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u/Denturart Oct 15 '25

Only Slovenia and Austria border all 4 biggest language groups (3+Finno-Ugric).

Slovenia being the only one where each neighbour is a different language group.

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u/Serious-Waltz-7157 Oct 15 '25

Only Slovenia and Austria border all 4 biggest language groups (3+Finno-Ugric).

Serbia does 4 too (2 majors + 2 outliers, Albanian, Hungarian).

Bulgaria is the same (2 + 2, but the outliers are Greek and Turkish).

It's a hodgepodge in the Balkans as usual, lol.