[OSM-talk] Looking for "primary language" map

[Andrew Guertin]

On 04/10/2017 07:35 PM, Yuri Astrakhan wrote:
> Does anyone know of an open source language map - basically a set of
> geoshapes with the corresponding language code?  Country boundaries are not
> needed - e.g. Canada and USA would be English with the exception of French
> for Montreal area.
>
> This is needed to guesstimate what language the "name" tag is in.
>
> Does not have to be very precise (10-20 MB is more than enough)

Have you considered using wikidata for this? For example, 
https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/61549 (Québec) has the tag 
wikidata=Q176, and https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q176 has an entry 
"official language".

I'd expect that the OSM-Wikidata mapping is good enough on the level of 
countries/large regions to make this work; if not, it's a good 
opportunity to improve it.

--Andrew