17. how and why are bilingual maps produced?

Cultural criteria

• Preservation of the cultural heritage of a people

• Inhabitants of minority language areas also pay taxes, so they also have the right to see their own geographical names on the topographic maps.

 

Current trends

• Increased bilingual representation or monolingual minority or regional names presentation.

• Marginal information translation more available

 

Procedure

• Delimitation of minority or regional language areas

• Introduction of bilingual transitional periods on the map

• Restoration of minority language names

• Exclusive minority language rendering

• Accompanied with bilingual marginal information rendering

 

Tools needed: language maps

 

An example from a multilingual country: Croatia

Here you can see where the Serbian minority lives.