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These are indo-european languages, I am sure you could do one for sino-tibetan if you feel like it.
Then where's Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam. Thought I'd see it around Sinhalese but they're missing. No south india representation :(
They're not missing, they just belong to an entirely different family. These are Dravidian languages, not Indo-European.
Fascinating, and what about Basque?
Basque is a language isolate and is thought to be unrelated to the Indo-European languages in this graphic.
Should be with the celtic languages I believe.
considering theres a small uralic bush the inconsistency is reasonable to point out
Sure but it also seems a bit, I dunno, silly. Sure, you could do a whole forest if you wanted to, and the name 'old world languages' is kinda dumb, as this is just two language families - but it's still a neat visualisation. It's not some conspiracy.
yea depending on how nitpicky you wanna get you can even point out that some language families are intercontinental between eurasia and the americas (not talking about colonialization, theres some related siberian and canadian languages iirc), but its pretty clear that this is supposed to be a general overview and pie languages do well enough for that