The north of Oceania has a tropical climate, like in Papua New Guinea. There can be monsoons in the wet season as there is heavy rainfall. Other parts of Oceania are very dry , like Australia.

Around 40 percent of the languages represented are from Asia, 27 percent are from Africa, 18 percent from Europe, 14 percent from the Americas, and the remainder come from Oceania and the Pacific.

Take a few minutes of your Friday to fall deep down the rabbit hole of New York City's jaw-dropping linguistic diversity. This interactive map is the product of more than a decade of research from ...

This map shows the rich diversity of Native American ethnic and language groups in California at the time of first contacts with Europeans in the 1700s and 1800s. The Native Americans settled ...

The map highlights almost 700 lingos and dialects "confirmed to nearly 1,200 significant sites, including neighborhoods, community institutions, restaurants and other locations where there is, or ...

If you can't see the map above, click here. They report: "Today we are 5.7 percent of the world population. By 2030, 7.5 ...

Dehradun: Chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Monday directed officials to take steps toward digitising Uttarakhand's dialects, folk tales, folk songs, and literature. "An e-library should be ...

John Wesley Powell, explorer, geologist, and scientist, produced this map while he was the head of the Bureau of American Ethnology, as part of an 1890 Annual Report.According to Powell’s ...

Linguistic anthropology, one of the four classic subfields of anthropology, seeks to analyze culture and society ethnographically and theoretically as they emerge through language and discourse. This ...

In this map, the shading represents a country’s score on the Linguistic Diversity Index – a measure of the likelihood that two randomly selected individuals from a country will have different ...

Hence, according to UNESCO estimates, which we visualized in the map above, about half of the world's spoken languages will disappear by the end of the century. You can click on the map to enlarge it.