Babel · Languages

Languages the whole set · the half-life of kinship

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Every language sits at its true homeland. Drag toward Sound to re-place them by how 40 core words sound — no family labels given.

Geography Sound

true homelandsplaced by 40 core words

Time-depth all families

Placed by homeland · re-placed by 40 core words · families not given · cohesion fades with time-depth. Dot size = vocabulary in Wiktionary.

4,347 placed languages across 227 families, ranked. Sort by raw size, by how much is borrowed, by counting base, phonology or grammar. Every row opens its portrait.

In the sound survey only

Babel

Languages

Every tongue at its homeland — then re-placed by sound.