Germans call their country Deutschland, a term originally coined to distinguish the language of the common people, German, from Latin and...

It might surprise you to know that Portuguese is one of the most widely spoken languages in the world, boasting a whopping 260 million...

Spanish is the fourth-most widely spoken language in the world, and if only native speakers are counted, it jumps up to second place,...

Spanish is a big language. With around 512 million total speakers, it’s the fourth-most widely spoken language in the world, with around...

There’s a lot more to Italy’s linguistic landscape than it initially looks like on the surface. Most people assume Italian is the only...

With Portugal being a relatively small country, many people don’t realize just how widely spoken Portuguese is. The vast majority of...

The official language of Italy may be Italian, but in truth, the linguistic situation of Italy is a lot more complicated than that. As...

Though most African countries designate a European or Semitic language as their primary lingua franca, the heavily populated continent...

The most well-known creole language is probably Haitian Creole, which also happens to be the world’s most widely spoken creole. But it’s...

The United States is seen as a native-English speaking country, and given that a whopping 78% of the population speaks English as their...

Mexico is teeming with languages—but most people wouldn’t know it. Indeed, Spanish is the predominant language in the Latin American...

How many languages are spoken in Africa? That’s a tricky question—not even linguists know. It depends on how you define a language. But...

When most people consider the indigenous languages of Mexico, they probably think about Mayan. Mayan is, in fact, not a single language...

From the westernmost point of Morocco to the farthest reaches of Egypt, Arabic is the dominant language all across North Africa. It...

The linguistic makeup of the Americas is more complex than you may think. Today, most people in the Americas speak a European...

Africa is truly a cornucopia of linguistic diversity. Across this massive continent south of Europe are more than 2,000 indigenous...

It can be difficult to define what languages and people groups are really “indigenous.” In the Americas, we can easily distinguish...

They speak more than Spanish in Mexico. Yes, the vast majority of the Mexican population speaks Spanish—it’s the lingua franca of the...

It can be difficult for Westerners to understand just how linguistically diverse Africa is. Of course, indigenous languages are spoken...

Most people don’t realize this, but Indonesia is the second-most linguistically diverse country in the world. It’s second only to...