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 ...

In the graphic below, Finish-Swedish illustrator Minna Sundberg artfully uses this format to trace the world's largest ... with a separate Nordic-language comparison chart, which you can view ...

Because fundamentally, no matter how fast or slow the world’s languages sound, they each evolved to convey the same amount of measurable information every second: roughly 39 bits. It’s a ...

There are at least 7,102 known languages alive in the world today. Twenty-three of these languages are a mother tongue for more than 50 million people. The 23 languages make up the native tongue ...

Small schools in particular struggle to offer the kind of advanced coursework students need to be competitive for college, and world language offerings, which are often recommended for college ...