{"id":577,"date":"2010-01-15T15:34:09","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T15:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/?p=577"},"modified":"2010-01-12T22:42:58","modified_gmt":"2010-01-12T22:42:58","slug":"remapping-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/15\/remapping-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Remapping the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Papua-New-Guinea-new-278x300.png\" alt=\"Papua New Guinea\" title=\"Papua New Guinea\" width=\"278\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-578\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Papua-New-Guinea-new-278x300.png 278w, http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Papua-New-Guinea-new.png 330w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 278px) 100vw, 278px\" \/>In my last post I wrote about The Atlas of True Names, which renamed places according to their etymology.<\/p>\n<p>Another map has been brought to my attention \u2013 one that reorganises the world according to the number of languages it has produced.<br \/>\n<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/5973339.Limits_of_Language\">Limits of Language<\/a>: Almost Everything You Didn\u2019t Know You Didn\u2019t Know About Language and Languages<\/em> (whew!) by Mikael Parkvall is \u201cpart Guinness Book of World Records, part Book of Lists, and part illustrated encyclopedia\u201d. And if that doesn\u2019t make you want to take a look at it, this will: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Papua_New_Guinea \">Papua New Guinea<\/a> is the biggest place on the map.<\/p>\n<p>Yep, tiny little Papua New Guinea (it\u2019s off the northeast coast of Australia, if you\u2019re trying to find it on a map), has produced more languages than any other country. Its total indigenous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethnologue.com\/show_country.asp?name=PG \">language count<\/a> is 841, of which 830 are classified as \u2018living\u2019 and 11 have no known speakers. <\/p>\n<p>Take a look at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wmjasco.com\/limits\/LLPreview.pdf\">this<\/a> PDF file for a sneak preview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my last post I wrote about The Atlas of True Names, which renamed places according to their etymology. Another map has been brought to my attention \u2013 one that reorganises the world according to the number of languages it has produced. Limits of Language: Almost Everything You Didn\u2019t Know You Didn\u2019t Know About Language [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,99,154],"tags":[359,99,536,537,535,534],"class_list":["post-577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-indigenous-languages","category-research","tag-endangered-languages","tag-indigenous-languages","tag-limits-of-language","tag-living-languages","tag-number-of-languages","tag-papua-new-guinea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":580,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions\/580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}