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Iranian Azerbaijan should be dotted or striped

Iranian Azerbaijan in the north east of Iran should be dotted or striped, since there are Persian speakers there, albeit a minority. Rob984 (talk) 19:43, 27 January 2017 (UTC)

The map shows only a very few selected cases of multilinguality (mainly former Soviet Union). AnonMoos (talk) 16:47, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

Estonia

Northwestern Estonia is dotted red due to Estonian Swedes, but they no longer live there. Western Estonian islands are dotted Slavic, but there is no reason for this. H2ppyme (talk) 11:08, 31 July 2019 (UTC)

You can't see any of that without magnifying it to a fairly large size... AnonMoos (talk) 17:09, 31 July 2019 (UTC)

Inconsistent inclusion of multilingual regions

Why is Turkmenistan considered multilingual (Turkmen and Russian), while Finland is not (Finnish, Swedish, and English)? They should either both be striped or both be gray.

There's a similar problem with Siberia vs Basque Country. If Siberia qualifies to be striped because it has enough Russian speakers, then so should Basque Country for having enough Spanish/French speakers. 96.230.102.172 19:07, 1 September 2019 (UTC)

See comment of "16:47, 31 January 2017 (UTC)" above... AnonMoos (talk) 05:56, 2 September 2019 (UTC)

That's the problem. It should show all cases of multilingualism, or none of them. Not sure why the ex-USSR should get special treatment here.

Also, the map isn't even consistent about multilingualism within the ex-USSR. Turkmenistan speaks Russian, but Georgia and Estonia do not? That's not right. 96.230.102.172 19:01, 2 September 2019 (UTC)