The global spread of the Indo-european language family

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  • Ephera@lemmy.ml
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    7 months ago

    I’m guessing, it doesn’t list the colonizers there, because in terms of numbers, they’re irrelevant…

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      7 months ago

      Yes, let’s ignore the whole of the Americas and Australia.

      Lots of people in African ex colonies are native speakers of Portuguese and French. I presume this was already the case in 1950.

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        7 months ago

        Then I guess, I was guessing wrong? I’m not trying to claim anything and I did specify “there”, because I did notice the Americas and Australia. I assumed, the definition of “native speaker” was maybe a bit special here…

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            7 months ago

            My thinking was that South Africa might have had more immigrants from Europe and such than e.g. Congo. At least, I believe, South Africa is particularly known for having many white folks there. But yeah, I’m also just spitballing…