Finland’s Minna Sundberg has a super new illustrative chart of the “Nordic Languages in the Old World Language Families”. The amount of leaves indicate the size of the current-day population speaking that language.

Useful for getting your head around what came from where. A small additional translator inset would be been useful for converting the sort of terms one encounters in deeply researching pre-LOTR Tolkien, such as “Old Norse”. It would have been nice to have just a couple of orienting dates. The Indo-European (Aryan) family had its origins in the Near East just over 8,000 years ago from today, for instance, with a big diffusion into Europe around 5,000 years ago.

Minna is the fine comic artist and storyteller making the ‘young adult’ graphic novels Stand Still. Stay Silent (ongoing – a future Scandanavia has returned to a state of Nordic mythology complete with monsters and magic), and A Redtail’s Dream (completed – a young boy of the North strays into the land of dreams).