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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 (...)

In its recent Flash Eurobarometer 466, the European commission asked a random sample of young EU citizens (aged 15–30) which languages (...)

Gottfried Hensel (1687–1765) was a German linguist. His book Synopsis Universae Philologiae, published in 1741, was an early work on (...)

Most European languages developed from a single language called Proto-Indo-European, spoken approximately between 4500 BC and 2500 BC (...)

“Track gauge” is the perpendicular distance between the inner faces of the two rails of a railway. Just like with many other things, it (...)

The map below is based on data by the European Space Agency (the CCI project). It shows the two different types of forests in North (...)

Politicians and economist always keep talking about gross domestic product (or GDP for short). But what is GDP and why does everybody seem (...)

Did you know that “tea” is either “te” or “cha(i)” in almost all languages in the world? Both names originally come from Chinese 茶, (...)

There are a few nouns in English that are only used in the plural. They may be confusing for English learners if the equivalent expression (...)

Times Higher Education regularly publishes World University Rankings, which is a list of more than 1,250 of some of the best universities (...)