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 ...

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 ...

Dylan Matthews was a senior correspondent and head writer for Vox’s Future Perfect section. He is particularly interested in global health and pandemic prevention, anti-poverty efforts, economic ...

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 ...

What language would you most like to be able to speak? Your answer to that probably depends on a lot of different factors, many of them unique to you. Perhaps you’d like to speak the language that is ...

Maps can tell you a lot about a place. Yes, they can tell you how to get somewhere, or what directions the streets run, but throw some data on a map, and they can tell you even more. So, with that run ...

Researchers from the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) have used MRI data to create what they call a "semantic atlas," using vivid colors in multiple dimensions to show how the brain ...

Google has made it possible for almost every language-speaking individual to use its apps and smartphone easily. And now, Google Maps lets you set the in-app language, which differs from the language ...