linguistics

The blog Strange Maps chronicles various and sundry maps found online and around the world. Today's find is Europa Polyglota, published in 1730 by Gottfried Hensel. The map itself attempts to show the concordances and differences between all the languages spoken in Europe by spelling out the beginning of the Lord’s Prayer in each of them.

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Evolutionary linguistics has had a troubled history; in the nineteenth century, linguists declared that inquiries into the origin of language were futile

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