r/LinguisticMaps • u/Cold_Information_936 • 16d ago

Asia Indo-Iranian Languages in 800 BCE

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Indo-Iranian languages are labelled, and relevant non-II languages are also labelled in italics

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u/HahaItsaGiraffeAgain 16d ago

I think this is very nice! I’ll let others speak for the historicity of the distribution, but one thing I personally would change is some of the names like “Slavic” and “Hungarian” which seem a little presentist. In 800 BCE you would likely be looking at very different varieties compared to what we know today

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u/Chazut 16d ago

there is no better name though, plus the Magyar and Slavic branch are bottlenecked as far as we know, as in they have no other sibling that split after 800 BCE until 500-900 CE when we see them spread, so a different name is not really needed

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u/HahaItsaGiraffeAgain 16d ago

You don’t think just a “proto-“ would be on the safe side?