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Well showing area that has only minority of some speakers as the colour of that language is quite misleading. Should be shaded or something

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It depends. I think if both languages are exclusive to that area then yeah, flag it. If one is a larger language and the other a minority language exclusive to a region is fine to only show the minority one. Context solves the issue just fine.

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You don’t know from context what the actual language situation there is with that method. For informative maps that’d be bad. That’s why shading makes more sense.

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If your map is about where every language is spoken, then you shade where every language is spoken.

If your map is about how a word is said on different languages, then you place words for unique languages, context takes care of bilingual areas.

It seems pretty obvious, really.

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