Pronunciation of European capitals
Please note: The article below was an April Fools’ joke, so don’t take it too seriously (but the transcriptions are actually mostly quite (...)
April 1, 2019 – Jakub Marian – Maps
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Youth participation in the 2014 European Parliament elections
The 2019 European elections will take place in less than two months. Many people think about the European elections as about something (...)
March 30, 2019 – Jakub Marian – Maps
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“Water” in European languages
The English word “water” derives from Proto-Germanic *watōr, which in turn derives from Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥ (“water”). This is (...)
March 22, 2019 – Jakub Marian – Maps
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Alphabets of Europe Map
There are three different types of alphabets used in Europe: Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek. They all look somewhat similar and share several (...)
January 10, 2019 – Jakub Marian – Maps
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Land cover of Russia
The map below is based on data by the European Space Agency (the CCI project). It shows Russia and parts of Central Asia, Europe, Middle (...)
January 7, 2019 – Jakub Marian – Maps
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Christmas gift-bringers of Europe
Find out who brings Christmas gifts in France, Germany, Spain, and many other countries by looking at this neatly coloured map. (...)
December 16, 2018 – Jakub Marian – Maps
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Land cover of Africa
The map below is based on data by the European Space Agency (the CCI project). It shows Africa and parts of the Middle East and Southern (...)
December 6, 2018 – Jakub Marian – Maps
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Languages young Europeans want to learn
In its recent Flash Eurobarometer 466, the European commission asked a random sample of young EU citizens (aged 15–30) which languages (...)
December 3, 2018 – Jakub Marian – Maps
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1741 linguistic map of Europe, Asia, and Africa
Gottfried Hensel (1687–1765) was a German linguist. His book Synopsis Universae Philologiae, published in 1741, was an early work on (...)
November 28, 2018 – Jakub Marian – Maps
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Evolution of the pronoun “I” in Indo-European languages
Most European languages developed from a single language called Proto-Indo-European, spoken approximately between 4500 BC and 2500 BC (...)
November 26, 2018 – Jakub Marian – Maps
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