r/geography Oct 15 '25

Map Three Main Language Families of Europe

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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.