{"id":1989,"date":"2017-09-27T15:36:09","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T15:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/?p=1989"},"modified":"2018-02-05T03:25:28","modified_gmt":"2018-02-05T03:25:28","slug":"this-tree-will-show-you-how-all-languages-are-connected-it-just-makes-a-lot-of-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/tree-show-how-all-languages-are-connected\/","title":{"rendered":"This Tree Will Show You How All Languages Are Connected & It Just Makes A Lot Of Sense"},"content":{"rendered":"

Minna Sundberg has produced a really detailed infographic that expresses how all languages \u200b\u200bcome from a couple of groups. We explain below a little about this incredible tree.<\/p>\n

\"Languages
Via: Mental Floss<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Finnish language<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The first thing we notice is that Finnish comes from the family of the Uralic language and shares roots with some indigenous languages \u200b\u200bin Scandinavia like Sami, despite their geographical distance.<\/p>\n

\"The
Via: Minna Sundberg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Europe<\/strong><\/h3>\n

In addition one can notice that many of the ancient languages \u200b\u200bof Great Britain are united. Likewise, we can see that the whole of Europe is united through Slavic, Romance and Germanic branches.<\/p>\n

\"Europe\"
Via: Minna Sundberg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The size of the leaves<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Also, according to the author, the size of the leaves of the tree indicates the number of people who speak the language. So we can see then how English has a lot of space occupied by leaves. And it also shows how English comes from Germanic, like German.<\/p>\n

\"The
Via: Minna Sundberg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Connections<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Finally, we can see connections between Hindi and Urdu.<\/p>\n

\"Connections\"
Via: Minna Sundberg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

About the author<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The author elaborated this infographic in order to explain how the perosnajes of its webcomic “Stand Still. Stay Silent<\/a>” could be understood in spite of speaking different languages.<\/p>\n

If you want to see more of her webcomics we invite you to visit his page: http:\/\/www.minnasundberg.fi\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Minna Sundberg has produced a really detailed infographic that expresses how all languages \u200b\u200bcome from a couple of groups. We explain below a little about this incredible tree. The Finnish language The first thing we notice is that Finnish comes from the family of the Uralic language and shares roots with some indigenous languages \u200b\u200bin […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2006,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1989"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2007,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989\/revisions\/2007"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}