The World Atlas of Language: Mapping the Story of Speech and Writing

A fascinating visual exploration of all things linguistic, tracing how words, sounds, scripts, norms, and borders are in constant flux

Did you know that more than 7,000 languages are spoken today, but that fifty percent of the world’s people use only fifteen of them? Or that there are hundreds of separate sign languages? Or that a dog’s bark is represented with wildly different sounds in English, Czech, and Thai? In The World Atlas of Language, Gaston Dorren, the international bestselling au...