About World Lang Map

World Language Map (Lingua Mundi) is an interactive atlas of the world's languages. Click any country on the map to explore its linguistic landscape — which languages are spoken, how many people speak them, how they sound, and where they came from.

The idea is that if you are deciding on what language to learn, you can take a look on the language atlas. The language map will allow you to see where the language you want to learn is spoken, or whether there are any similar languages that you could pick up more easily afterwards.

The Map

Countries are coloured by their dominant language family — Romance, Germanic, Slavic, Sino-Tibetan, Semitic, and more. Toggle between a broad view (10 families) and a detailed view (24 sub-families) to see the world's linguistic geography at different levels of granularity.

The Blog

The blog covers linguistics concepts, language family histories, fascinating quirks of specific languages, and the science of how humans communicate. New articles are posted regularly.

About the author

The World Language Map is a personal project that I developed because I like learning about languages. It is entirely created and maintained by just one person, so if you want to support me you can sign onto a waiting list for a language learning app that I am also developing. Alternatively if you can afford it, you can also support this language atlas directly. Currently I am dealing with a serious disease, and I really appreciate all the support that I get.