Mapping The World's Languages

The Langscape Map is a map of the world's languages. You tin click anywhere on the map to honour the languages spoken at that location.

The map includes 6,400 of the world’s languages. As good every bit helping you lot honour which languages are spoken where, the map includes data almost demographics, linguistic communication families in addition to good recordings & text materials. After clicking on a place on the map you lot tin guide 1 of the listed languages to stance to a greater extent than data almost it beneath the map.


The Endangered Languages Project past times the Alliance of Linguistic Diversity is looking to foster an telephone substitution of data almost languages which are threatened amongst extinction.

There are currently some 7,000 languages surviving inward the footing simply it is estimated that at to the lowest degree one-half of them volition disappear solely earlier the destination of this century. The Endangered Languages Project uses Google Maps to exhibit the locations where languages are at run a jeopardy throughout the world.

If you lot click on a linguistic communication listed on the map you lot tin acquire farther details almost the language, including YouTube samples of the linguistic communication beingness spoken, references to the linguistic communication inward texts from Google Books in addition to details almost how many of each language's speakers move in addition to an assessment of the language's electrical flow vitality.


Type whatsoever discussion inward whatsoever linguistic communication into Wordmap in addition to you lot tin heed to it beingness translated into every other linguistic communication inward the world.

After you lot type a discussion into Wordmap a Google Map is like shooting fish in a barrel populated amongst all of the word's translations. As the translated discussion is added to each province some the footing you lot tin every bit good postulate heed the translated discussion beingness pronounced inward each language.

After the map has finished adding all the translated words to the map, lines are added to the map to connect all the countries amongst a mutual language. You tin every bit good click on each discussion on the map to acquire a petty to a greater extent than almost the country's linguistic communication from the language's Wikipedia entry.