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Maps of the world are typically written with the language of the viewer in mind. But the zoomable Endonym Map takes a different approach, writing each country’s name in one of that country’s own ...

An artistic map of Ireland that features Irish-language placenames has been crafted by Isaac Dushku - "Lord of Maps" - in the style of "Lord of the Rings" author J. R. R. Tolkien. Isaac Dushku, aka ...

(CN) – Sixty million U.S. residents speak a language other than English at home, 37 million of them Spanish, the Census Bureau said in a new report that ...

Seke is a language spoken in just a handful of towns in Nepal—worldwide, there are fewer than 700 people who speak it. More than 100 of those people live in Brooklyn and Queens, according to the ...

On picking up inspiration from Berkeley slam poets in the ’80s: “It was so brash and in your face. All the poems I was thinking were quieter. I had anger. It wasn’t that same kind of anger, but I ...