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One of the ways America shows its diverse culture is in the sheer number of languages spoken by the country's people. The above map shows which languages other than English and Spanish are the most ...

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 the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Did you know that New York City residents collectively speak at least 637 languages and dialects? A recent impressive map from the non-profit Endangered Language Alliance, first reported by Gothamist, ...

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 ...