{"id":6694,"date":"2019-04-02T20:03:53","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T19:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=6694"},"modified":"2019-04-02T20:03:53","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T19:03:53","slug":"minna-sundbergs-old-languages-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2019\/04\/02\/minna-sundbergs-old-languages-map\/","title":{"rendered":"Minna Sundberg&#8217;s old languages map"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finland&#8217;s Minna Sundberg has <a href=\"https:\/\/mymodernmet.com\/comic-artist-illustrated-linguistic-tree\/\">a super new illustrative chart of the &#8220;Nordic Languages in the Old World Language Families&#8221;<\/a>. The amount of leaves indicate the size of the current-day population speaking that language. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/language-tree-minna-sundberg-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/language-tree-minna-sundberg-1.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"902\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6695\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>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-<em>LOTR<\/em> Tolkien, such as &#8220;Old Norse&#8221;. 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.<\/p>\n<p>Minna is the fine comic artist and storyteller making the &#8216;young adult&#8217; graphic novels <em><a href=\"https:\/\/hivemill.com\/collections\/stand-still-stay-silent\">Stand Still. Stay Silent<\/a><\/em> (ongoing &#8211; a future Scandanavia has returned to a state of Nordic mythology complete with monsters and magic), and <em>A Redtail&#8217;s Dream<\/em> (completed &#8211; a young boy of the North strays into the land of dreams). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finland&#8217;s Minna Sundberg has a super new illustrative chart of the &#8220;Nordic Languages in the Old World Language Families&#8221;. 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tolkien-gleanings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}