Language Maps of Europe

The “Basic Latin Alphabet”, as defined by the ISO, consists of the following 26 letters and their uppercase variants (and is identical to (...)

The English word “January” comes from Latin ianuarius, which means “of Janus” (Janus was an ancient Roman god of doorways, gates, (...)

The English Proficiency Index (EPI) by EF Education First is a rating of countries according to (presumably) the average level of English (...)

Learning foreign languages is an important part of secondary education in Europe. One could argue that it should be enough to just learn (...)

French was and to a certain degree still is one of the most influential languages in the world. It is one of the official languages of the (...)

German is the most widely spoken language in the European Union—and arguably the most important language of Central Europe. It shouldn’t (...)

The following map shows the language families of Europe (distinguished by colour) and languages within those families. Note that the terms (...)

This article clarifies the methodology I use to represent the linguistic situation in Ukraine in my linguistic maps, such as the map of (...)

Germany is an unusual country, not only because of its renowned engineering and a large variety of beer but also because of its name. Most (...)

Onomastics is a fascinating area of linguistics concerned with the study of the history and origin of proper names. Today’s map lies on (...)