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 ...

Web developer Jill Hubley’s latest census map (h/t Gothamist) looks like a decorative art piece or collage. (You might remember her previous project documenting New York City’s tree distribution.) ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(CN) – Sixty million U.S. residents speak a language other than English at home, 37 million of them Spanish, the Census Bureau said in a new report that ...

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 ...