Maps of Sapotekan

Aztec Empire: c. 1519 (Public Content)


Aztec Empire c. 1519

Source:   Wikimedia Commons
Data Source:   This map was built using data from:
Berdan, Frances F., Richard E. Blanton, Elizabeth H. Boone, Mary G. Hodge, Michael E. Smith and Emily Umberger. 1996. Aztec Imperial Strategies. Washington, DC.
Barlow, R.H. 1949. Extent of the Empire of the Culhua Mexica (Iberoamerican 28). Berkeley and Los Angeles Univ. of California.

Usage Notes/Copyright Status:   GNU Free Documentation License
Date Downloaded:   2007

Map Description:
This map represents the core states, the tributary states, and the allied states of the Aztec Empire as it stood shortly before the Spanish conquest of Mexico. The borders should be considered very approximate.



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Mexico: Linguistic Map of Mesoamerica (Public Content)


Linguistic Map of Mesoamerica

Map Creator(s):   Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies, INC. (FAMSI)
Source:   FAMSI
Contact:   FAMSI, Archivist: jessicafamsi.org, FAMSI, 268 South Suncoast Boulevard, Crystal River, FL, 34429, U.S.A.
Usage Notes/Copyright Status:   When FAMSI images are requested for educational purposes only–not for sale or profit–permission is freely given.

Map Description:
This Linguistic Map is based on the previous linguistic maps of Mendizábal and Jiménez (1936, 1941), Frederick Johnson (1940), and McQuown (1955) and has been modified from The Handbook of Middle American Indians.



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Oto-Mangean in Contemporary Meso-America



Oto-Mangean in Contemporary Meso-America

Map Creator:   The LINGUIST List
Data Sources:  
The LINGUIST List. 2008. Oto-Manguean: Composite 2008. The LINGUIST List MultiTree Language Database.
Kaufman, Terrence. 2007. Meso-America. In R. E. Asher & Christopher Moseley (eds.), Atlas of the World’s Languages. 57. Oxford: Routledge.

Date Created:   Jun-2009.

Map Description:
The areas pictured display locations of where Oto-Mangean languages are spoken today. Although there is some contention over whether to include Amusgo and Trike in the Mistekan branch, they have been included here. Oto-Mangean is presented as a stock, in the same order as Indo-European (Asher, Moseley et al.).

This original map was made by vectorizing data from the MultiTree language database and the Altas of the World's Languages.


Other resources related to this project:
This folder (Contemporary Meso-American Languages) contains other maps showing linguistic subgroups and their time of contact. The maps may be overlaid on each other for a more complete picture.


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Oto-Mangean in Meso-America at the Time of Contact



Oto-Mangean in Meso-America at the Time of Contact

Map Creator:   The LINGUIST List
Data Sources:  
The LINGUIST List. 2008. Oto-Manguean: Composite 2008. The LINGUIST List MultiTree Language Database.
Kaufman, Terrence. 2007. Meso-America. In R. E. Asher & Christopher Moseley (eds.), Atlas of the World’s Languages. 57. Oxford: Routledge.

Date Created:   Jun-2009.

Map Description:
The areas pictured display locations of where Oto-Mangean subgroup languages were spoken when they were first encountered and knowledge of them was recorded. As specified by Asher and Moseley, the time of contact varied for each language; most of the coastal languages were first identified during the 16th and 17th centuries, although some languages in the interior of South America became known much more recently during the 20th century (Kaufman 2007).

This original map was made by vectorizing data from the MultiTree language database and the Altas of the World's Languages.


Other LLMAP resources related to this project:
This folder (Meso-America at the Time of Contact) contains other maps showing linguistic subgroups and their time of contact. The maps may be overlaid on each other for a more complete picture.


Note: Scanned or downloaded images have been geo-registered for compatibility with our project interface. Slight imperfections are an inevitable result of the registration process.