These seven maps and charts, visualized by The Washington Post, will help you understand how diverse other parts of the world are in terms of languages. 1. Some continents have more languages ...

colonial languages like Spanish, English, and Portuguese have many more speakers in the new world than they have in their countries of origin. Take a closer look at the map and view additional ...

A fascinating world map shared on Reddit shows the most spoken languages in every country, with it showing some surprising results. The map in question shows that English is unsurprisingly the ...

Instead of representing each language, the map groups territory by which broader ... start looking a lot more monochrome. Understand the world with a daily explainer plus the most compelling ...

Dots on the maps in this piece represent ... And because most of the world’s languages are on a path to disappear within the next century, there will likely never be this many in any single ...

Users can view maps that track the number of a ... is the country in the world with the greatest diversity of languages.” ...

The introduction of writing systems changed the world. It allowed humans to physically express thoughts and language, as well as record events for future generations to study. Although different ...

and nowhere in the world has more than Queens, according to the Endangered Language Alliance (ELA). You can see many of the languages in the map above, which is featured in "Nonstop Metropolis ...

Out of all languages in the world, 2,000 have fewer than 1,000 native speakers. Hence, according to UNESCO estimates, which we visualized in the map above, about half of the world's spoken ...