Language Maps of Europe

The map below shows European capital cities together with their names in the local languages (all possible variants are shown in countries (...)

The English word “Earth”, German “Erde”, Swedish “jorden”, and similar expressions in other Germanic languages come from Proto-Germanic (...)

English is the most widely studied foreign language in all European countries (which should not be surprising) except Luxembourg, but what (...)

This article explains the methodology I used to generate the Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian part of my linguistic maps, such as this (...)

The map below shows how to say “woman” in European languages. The colouring is based on etymology, not on language families (in other (...)

A New Year’s resolution is a vow people make to themselves to change an undesired habit or behaviour. The following map shows what New (...)

Learn how to wish a “Happy New Year” in German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, and other languages. (...)

A map showing how to wish people a “Merry Christmas” in French, German, Spanish, Italian and other European languages. (...)

December got its name from Latin decem, “ten”, because it was the tenth month of the Roman calendar (which started in March, not January). (...)

Did you know that the animal proverbially killed in the expression “kill two birds with one stone” differs from country to country? The (...)