"Languages are nothing but politics."
Language Maps have been used throughout history to denote regions where a specific language is spoken. Language boarders have often lead to actual borders between countries being created especially at ends of wars. Such as the First World War, in which the treaties that ended the conflict agreed the creation of a number of new states based of nationalities and languages. Most modern language maps do not represent the languages spoken in a region, they often just represent officially recognised languages by governments. There is also much speculation within the study of linguistics the different classification of languages into family groups and the classification between dialects and language. Languages are generally the product of politics, this can be seen to a great extent in the Scandinavian languages where differences between internal dialects are often much greater than those between the national languages. Italian is a different example of almost an entirely new language being created out most of the languages present in Italy, if Italy had not become one country then t is highly likely that 'Italian' would never have existed