All,<br><br>There is a new map on our images resource page: it depicts showing the <a href="http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/plc/clpp/images/langmaps/GermanSlavicborderlines-blog427.jpg"> historic border between Germanic and Slavic
languages
</a> one millennium ago.
A recent message to the list regarding<br>"zombie borders" discusses how old linguistic borders tend to continue to exist as administrative<br>borders, even after political changes.<br><br>To get to the language maps pages, go to the website and click on "resources", then scroll<br>
down to "language maps". <br><br>(While you're looking at the pages of language maps, notice how disorganized this resource is.<br>Anybody want to volunteer to organize it better? :-) )<br><br>HS<br><br><br clear="all">
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