For reasons both poetic and pragmatic, the tree has historically been the ... Sundberg artfully uses this format to trace the world's largest language families. All of the languages illustrated ...

The numbers are fascinating because they reflect the fact that two-thirds of the world's population share only 12 native languages. Those numbers were recently published by the University of ...

Stay Silent, a story set in a lushly imagined post-apocalyptic Nordic world ... is the page before the tree, where she gives a comparison chart of words in the Nordic languages, and illustrates ...

An intricate chart drawn by Finnish-Swedish graphic ... Whatever the case, as Sundberg's illustration shows, the language family now spans the world. Each patch of foliage is a rough reflection ...