Languages of the World
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Languages of the world

What’s new

Changes to this map, newest first: new features, additions and fixes.

  1. Expanded map

    Original scripts on share images

    Images for social media now show Japanese, Chinese and Korean text: language names in their own scripts, dish names in the original and map titles in these languages.

    • Languages of the world: language names in their own scripts
    • National dishes: dish names in the original script
    • Ominuvo catalog: map images in Japanese, Chinese and Korean
    • Castles map: names of photo authors in Japanese and Chinese

  2. Fixes

    Improvements and fixes

    More accurate data on several maps and clearer wording in a few places.

    • Facts checked and corrected in castle, dish and language descriptions
    • More accurate locations for several castles
    • Places that are not castles, or no longer exist, were removed from the Castles map
    • Clearer information about plug types and voltages
    • Clearer wording on several maps and clearer news cards on the home page

  3. Expanded map

    Languages of the world: comparisons, endangered languages and family trees

    Compare two languages side by side, see which languages are endangered, explore family trees and check the legal status of languages in each country.

    • A side-by-side comparison of two languages
    • Endangered languages, based on Glottolog
    • Family trees on language and family pages
    • Statuses with a legal basis: working, national and recognized minority languages
    • Simplified or traditional Chinese characters, depending on the country

  4. Fixes

    Improvements and fixes

    Better maps on phones, faster photos and clearer page descriptions in search results.

    • Better map layout on phones
    • Photos load faster
    • Shorter, clearer page descriptions in search results
    • Better video quality for Instagram and TikTok
    • Updated electricity data in World in Numbers

  5. Expanded map

    Quizzes on the series maps

    Test yourself on the maps: where is this castle or volcano, which dish is this, which plug is used here, what time is it in the capital, and more.

    • Point maps: click where a castle, volcano or story is – the closer you are, the more points you get
    • Plants and dishes: guess from a photo
    • Plugs, languages, currencies and time zones of the world’s countries
    • World in Numbers: the highest value, and higher or lower
    • A quiz on every map in the Ominuvo catalog

  6. Expanded map

    Country pages that connect the series maps

    Each country now has a page on Ominuvo with facts from all the series maps – population, languages, castles, volcanoes, plugs and more – and links to each map.

    • Facts from every series map on one country page
    • Country pages on each map link to the same country on the other maps
    • Places on the point maps show what is nearby on other maps

  7. New map

    Languages of the world: what people speak in every country

    Official, regional and minority languages of every country, with the share of speakers, language families, scripts and how to say hello.

    • Four map views: families, branches, official languages and where a language is spoken
    • Every country’s languages with their status and share of speakers
    • Language families, scripts and numbers of speakers
    • “Hello” and “thank you” in each language

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