Re: International Tea Day (15 December)

On 2024-12-17, Athel Cornish-Bowden <me@yahoo.com> wrote:

I've seem a better map I can no longer find, but here's the one
from WALS:
https://wals.info/feature/138A

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Your map is interesting, but as Chile is (or used to be) as much of a
tea-drinking nation as the UK or Russia, I'm surprised there is no
symbol for it.

It's the World Atlas of Language Structures Online.  It has large
lists of (mostly more interesting phonological and grammatical)
features and corresponding maps of the languages indigenous to that
part of the world.  I guess the compilers didn't have any data for
tea words in a Chilean language, but if they did, it would be for
something like Mapuche rather than Spanish, which is located on the
Iberian peninsula.

You may want to browse a bit in WALS, it's an interesting resource.

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