There was once a linguistic landscape of incredible diversity in North America. While the continent of Europe has three main language families — Romance, Germanic, and Slavic — Native American ...

Like New York City, London is one of the most linguistically diverse cities in the world. Almost two million people speak English as a second language, and across the city, Londoners speak about 300 ...

Seke is a language spoken in just a handful of towns in Nepal—worldwide, there are fewer than 700 people who speak it. More than 100 of those people live in Brooklyn and Queens, according to the ...

This is the language map of England which reveals the parts of the country where as many as two in five people do not have English as their mother tongue. New data shows the proportion of people ...

In 1974, Michael Krauss published a map of the traditional territories of Alaska's indigenous languages and peoples. It wasn't the first of its kind, but it was far and away the most accurate, based ...

As anyone who's even been on the 7 train—the MTA's so-called "international express"—can tell you, Queens is diverse. In fact, there's nowhere in the world with as many languages as the largest ...

Evolution of English A 'family tree' of languages adds weight to the theory that a large group of languages, including English, originated from the region that is now Turkey. The controversial ...

Maps of the world are typically written with the language of the viewer in mind. But the zoomable Endonym Map takes a different approach, writing each country’s name in one of that country’s own ...