This map, drawn by L. Henkel for Petermann's Geographical Communications magazine in 1901, shows the...
Linguistics Maps

Linguistic map of the camel (2022)
This map, published by Reddit user LlST- in 2022, shows the origin and evolution of the word...

Linguistic map of the potato (2024)
This map, published by Mapologies in 2024, shows how to say 'potato' in the different languages spoken in Europe. Using a...

Linguistic map of Africa (1741)
This map, created by Gottfried Hensel in 1741 and restored by Jakub Marian in 2018, was published by Homann Erben in its...

Linguistic map of the carrot (2024)
This map, published by Mapologies in 2024, shows how to say carrot in the different languages spoken in Europe. Using a...

The journey of words along trade routes (2019)
This map, created by Hasaim Hussein in 2019 for Lapham's Quarterly magazine, shows how certain words travelled and...

Linguistic map of Italy (2011)
This map, created by Susana Freixeiro for Wikimedia Commons in 2011, shows the languages and dialects of Italy. In Italy, despite...

Linguistic map of Asia (1741)
This map, created by Gottfried Hensel in 1741 and restored by Jakub Marian in 2018, was published by Homann Erben in...

Linguistic map of Hindustan (1978)
This map, edited by Joseph E. Schwartzberg in 1978, is part of A Historical Atlas of South Asia (An atlas...

The most searched words in each country (2025)
This map, published by Wordtips in 2025, shows the most searched word definitions in each country in the...

Linguistic map of Europe (1741)
This map, created by Gottfried Hensel in 1741 and restored by Jakub Marian in 2018, was published by Homann Erben in...

Linguistic map of the Caucasus (2012)
This map, created by Jake Coolidge for GeoCurrents in 2012, with the help of Russian linguist Asya Pereltsvaig, shows the...

Linguistic map of soup in Europe (2023)
This map, published by Mapologies in 2023, shows how to say 'soup' in the different languages spoken in Europe. Using a...

The dialects of Basque in the seven Basque provinces (1863)
This map was created by French philologist Louis Lucien Bonaparte and published by Stanfords in London in 1863. Louis...

Words exported from German (2012)
This map was created by Ralf Grauel in 2012 for the illustrated book Deutschland verstehen (Understanding Germany). In the illustration...

Killing two birds with one stone in European languages (2017)
This map, created by illustrator Jakub Marian in 2017, shows the different forms of the expression «kill two birds with one stone".

Linguistic map of beer in Europe (2013)
This map, created by Reddit user Bezbojnicul in 2013, shows how to say 'beer' in different languages...

Accents in the Spanish language (2020)
This map, created by Reddit user VillalobosSand1, shows the distribution of accents in countries where Spanish is spoken...

Native Languages and Cultures of the United States (1967)
This map was published by William C. Sturtevant, an American anthropologist and ethnologist, in 1967. Sturtevant devoted his entire career...

Official languages of Latin America and the Caribbean (2018)
This map, created by illustrator Jakub Marian in 2018, shows the official languages or languages with some form of protection in...
