Masaman's 2021 Ethno-Racial Map of the World (Part 2: Europe)

Here is the latest installment in the 2021 Masamap series chronicling the distinct ethno-racial-religious-linguistic groups of the world, this time focused on the European continent. With over 700 million people, Europe is certainly a hardy task to pinpoint the different ethnic and cultural identities that transcend borders and modern nations, but I feel I have created a good representation of not only the historic ethnic groups of the continent, but also some of the more contentious nuances surrounding the linguistic and religious makeup of some of these groups.

Part 3 will be out shortly, followed by an eventual release of the full map, but keep in mind, some of the areas may change, as I reserve the right to revise and edit my work. Thank you all so much for the encouragement and patience you've shown over the years and thanks for watching!

[Alex_Plante]

I would call this an ethno-linguistic map, not an ethno-racial map.

[danielealbaghdadi]

As an italian, I think that classifying both Tuscany and Sicily, whose inhabitants have completely different cultures, under the same group, while leaving regions like Emilia-Romagna, which is much closer to the central italian culture than the venetian one, outside of it, is a little weird. I'd suggest making a new subdivision for the central italian dialects, which are spoken in most of Latium, Umbria, Marche and in some parts of Abruzzo, and including the tuscan dialects too in it, since all of these regions have been highly influenced by standard "tuscan" italian language and culture. Nonetheless, great work on everything else, keep going!

[waymilky]

Those who are saying that this is more ethnolinguistic than "ethnoracial" are right. It doesn't take into account all the assimilation. Especially in the Balkans.

[francoisarchereaudanielcon]

Hello I just want to signal a little imperfection in your map. I come from the french department of Vendée and I can assure you that people living in the south of the loire-atlantique department, south of the Loire (what is called "Pays de Retz", including mainly Machecoul, Saint-Philbert-de-Grand-Lieu and Pornic) are NOT and never were breton speakers. They speak, as their Vendeans brothers an Oïl dialect called Poitevin (or Poitevin-Saintongeais).

Thank you for all your work.

[NorthPoleSun]

I hope you are safe in Texas, Masaman.

[kevinsomething]

As a native west-Frisian speaker.
Everytime I see something about Europe and languages I hope that they'll atleast mention Frisian. It could just be my strong sense of nationalism though :P

[mornuza]

You forgot to mention the Frisians and the Frisian language! We are also genetically different from the Dutch.

[bruhistantv]

my mans just disappeared off the face of the planet i hope he's good

[salutic.]

This man out here somehow managing to come up with even BETTER demographic maps every year, hope u stay well in texas mason 💯

[scrubby]

Greeks and Italians often go by the term “Una Faccia, Una Razza” (One Face, One Race), although it mainly applies to southern Italians as throughout ancient times south Italy was inhabited by Greeks (Magna Graecia). It’s pretty apparent aswell .. South italians have a darker skin tone and tend to be pretty short (not all obviously) compared to central and northern Italians. Also, us Italians can tell where someone is from in Italy judging by their last names

[GiulioImparato]

an apulian and a tuscan would have a reeeally hard time understanding each other... or better: if the Tuscan spoke his "dialect" and so did the Apulian, the Apulian would understand the tuscan (because of the similarity with standard italian) but the Tuscan would never understand the Apulian.

[willygracia]

-Oh no.
-What?
-Masaman made a linguistic map or Europe.
-What was that noise?
-A horde or berserk europeans coming to correct the most minute detail about regional dialects and local varieties.
-What do we do?
-Run, run for your life!

[slimking]

nothing ethno-racial about that map, it's maybe ethno-linguistic at best. Nothing wrong with that, just don't call it an ethno-racial map. Once a language becomes standardized or becomes lingua franca its connection to ethnicity and race fades quite rapidly through time.

[consumerisms]

I swear to god the wait for the full version is killing me

[hawell]

In eastern Poland, there are *Belarusians* speaking *Polesian* ethnolect of Ukrainian, in the north-east, along the border with Lithuania, there is a small community of *Lithuanians*, *Kashubs* are a nation legally separate from Poles and *Silesians* are a very distinct ethnolectic group of Poles. Many Poles live in Czech Silesia, and Slovak Highlanders are of Polish origin. Basically, you messed up Western Slavs.
*Lusatians* are hardly visible on the map you could use a more contrasting color.
Fun fact: Carpatho-Ruthenians are also commonly called *Lemkos*

[clips_a_la_menthe]

My family is from Southern France (South-East) and I live in Northern France
And it really seems to me that we have genetical differences
In my family we all have black or dark brown hair, and when I visit my grand-parents, it’s the same for their neighbors
But in my school, everyone from French origin (they are mainly from Northern France) has light or medium hair color, most of girls have dark blond hair
I mean I met no one except me from French origin with black hair (or even curly hair but I am the only one in my family to have curly hair so not very relevant) 😂😂😂

Physically, there is no difference about skin tone or eyes color, and it difficult to remarks the other differences

But the difference with hair color is VERY remarkable and I think that it means something

The differences about Northern and Southern France in food, architecture etc are very numerous

[johnlastname]

Seems like you forgot Kashubian, which is recognised as a separate language from Polish.

[jorgeh.r]

Hey masaman, a few suggestions:
-Sadlermiut people
-Cossacks
-Aboriginal canarians
-Romani and Dom people
-The mixture of Iberian, Celtic, Arab, Gothic and Roman blood in today's Spain
-Jewish ethnic divisions
-Sirenik people
-Inuit subgroups
-Polynesians reaching Antartica
-Socotrans
-Jeju people

[jlpack]

My mother's paternal family is Rusyn (Lemko); thanks for pointing out their difference from the Ukrainians & Polish. From my family's research, they see themselves as being distinct from both, and a countryless people.

[honderdzeventien]

Wow man.. Hadn't tuned in for a while. You've grown for miles in quality of substance! Great to have the language-gene pool side by side. This is going somewhere