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Culture / 7 weeks ago
Before Latin, Greek or Germanic, these were the languages that ruled Europe
Europe is today mapped in familiar languages—English, French, Spanish, Italian, and German. Yet long before the spread of these Indo-European languages, a patchwork of earlier peoples spoke tongues now lost, surviving only in place names, inscriptions, and linguistic traces. A new map illustrates this mosaic of the languages that preceded Indo-European expansion in Europe. It spotlights extinct tongues like Etruscan, Nuragic, Iberian, Tartessian and Aquitanian, plus the lone survivor still spoken today: Basque.
Maps / 39 weeks ago
The various regions in Africa and what they stand for
Africa, the second-largest and second-most-populous continent globally, comprises 54 countries, each with its unique culture, history, and geography. To better understand this vast and diverse continent, the United Nations divides Africa into five distinct regions: Northern Africa, West Africa, East Africa, Central Africa, and Southern Africa.
