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Do you know what your country or region's second language is? This infographic reveals the most spoken language in the world.

Two charts and sixteen maps, showing how the languages of Britain and Ireland have changed since the Roman rule of Britannia ended 1600 years ago! First, check out this GIF I made! When most people think of the languages of Britain and Ireland, they probably think of English. It’s the language pretty much everybody speaks, […]

This detailed visualization breaks down the 100 most spoken languages around the world, by total and native speakers. Can you find yours on the list?

A review of the best FREE resources to learn Chinese online: Dictionaries, Grammar, Audio, Video, Reading, Social, and much more

German is the most widely spoken language in the European Union. It is also the most peculiar. That’s the first thing german speakers will tell you about it. It’s fearsome grammar, tedi…

Words really don’t have any logic to them. You can’t just work out the meaning of words based on the sounds that make them up. That’s because words are arbitrary.  So if you don&#…

Compelling evidence makes the case for both the Steppe and Anatolian Hypotheses. 
 

This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Do you speak this language? Do you share the experience? These ar

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Researchers put linguistics and genomics together to explore how ancient Aborigines expanded across Australia and began to speak different languages

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There are over 7000 languages spoken in the world today and over 190 countries. This begs the following question: which countries have the most languages? In this article, we rank the 20 countries …

How long does it take English speakers to learn various languages? Spanish may be a quick one, but Japanese will likely test your resolve.

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These maps will help you see how diverse parts of the word are in terms of languages. They provide insightful data about indigenous languages spoken in each continent. There are three things you ha…

Languages have different phonetic inventories. Some languages use more sounds than others. A perceptually distinct sound unit is technically called a phoneme. Two sounds are different if they are p…

Six charts and maps that give just a snapshot of the world's 6,000 living languages.

Beauty is in the ear of the beholder, but here are our picks of the top ten special languages in the world.

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Today, three billion people speak Indo-European langauges