File talk:IE countries.png

message: I Suggest to show countries (or at least part of them) which have IE-speakers. Wheither those languages are unofficial or banned.
Diyako Talk + 16:46, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Suugestion

message: *Added Crete and the Aegean Islands
*Added Cyprus as orange (official language Greek); previously absent altogether.
*Added yellow for Malta, Israel, Singapore, Kenya (official language English)
*Added yellow for East Timor (Portuguese), Comoros (French), and Lebanon (French).
*Added Canary Islands and Azores (in Orange, Spanish and Portuguese, respectively).
*Added Carribean islands 
--Briangotts (Talk) (Contrib)
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I recommend that you change Paraguay into a "light orange" country. The vast majority of its inhabitants speak Guarani, not Spanish. Caesarion 14:11, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The vast majority of its inhabitants speak both Spanish and Guarani. Spanish is an official language. Briangotts (Talk) (Contrib) 18:12, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, but I thought the theme of this map was how many native speakers the IE languages have. It might be true that Spanish is spoken and understood by many as a kind of "classical" language, in a way all Javans speak Indonesian, but that doesn't make them native speakers. Caesarion 09:43, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edits to map 

message: *Changed entire map to Image:BlankMap-World.png. I feel the old map was stretched too much vertically.
*Bhutan coloured yellow (English is now an official language). 
*European side of Turkey now grey (was red). 
*Western Sahara now yellow (Spanish is official). 
Things to check:
*Sources that confirm English is an official language of Israel. The article on Israel does not say English is official and the CIA World Factbook claims that English is widely used, but not an official language. Israel is currently grey. 
*The article on Bahrain says English is an official language. 
*Whether Cyprus should be orange or yellow. I was under the impression roughly 70-80% of Cyprus speaks Greek. 
*Numerous Pacific islands. Done. 
--3345345335534 03:55, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Official languages include Italian and English. Briangotts (Talk) (Contrib) 12:44, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  More edits to map 

message: ===>Graphic designers help! Could someone edit the map to make a separate Montenegro from the former Serbia and Montenegro? Thanks. -Justin (koavf), talk, mail 20:00, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Montenegro 

message: English is not an official language of Israel. The only official languages are Hebrew and Arabic which are both Semitic. Please remove the coloring from Israel.
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Briangotts explained that in a previous edit (scroll up). --334 01:56, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Israel 

message: I know that French isn't part of the official languages of these countries, but it plays a fairly dominant role in the culture (alongside Arabic), much more so than the average effect of English on the world, especially in literature and education. John Riemann Soong 19:47, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. Just change the criteria. Meursault2004 07:09, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Algeria and Morocco  

message: Why are Finland and Greenland yellow?
:Each has a predominantly non-IE speaking population but an IE language as one of their official languages (Danish in Greenland, Swedish in Finland.) Briangotts (Talk) (Contrib) 21:07, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Section moved from image page 

message: A majority of people in Kazakhstan speak Russian as their primary luangage, a situation like paraguay.--J intela (talk) 06:40, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Kazakhstan