Language families

The Old World Language Families infographic from Stand Still Stay Silent Comic shows the “roots” of our modern languages. Follow each language’s path from bush to roots and discover how closely languages are related to each other. Language trees for the language lovers! I’ve gathered

There are almost a hundred different languages spoken natively in Europe, but only about 40 of them have 1 million speakers or more. The map below shows estimates of the total number of native

The English language, and indeed most European languages, traces it original roots back to a Neolithic (late Stone Age) people known as the Indo-Europeans or

The main divisions of the Indo-European Group. Many languages that we today find to be very different are in fact descended from the same original root language, English, along with many of the languages of Europe, parts of Asia, and India are descendants of the same common ancestor language spoken perhaps 7,000 to 9,000 years ago: Proto-Indo-European (PIE).

National Geographic senior graphic designer Alberto Lucas López has created a clear, useful infographic that shows us just how common distinct native

You might know that “family” in French is “famille”. But what about other family vocabulary? Discover them in this beginner’s guide to family in French (with audio files!)

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