World Languages

A globe seen from space with chords of light arcing between related languages through its interior.

Inner Dialogue

Related languages, linked through the Earth

A circle of thousands of coloured threads, many sweeping across the middle.

Crossings

A 2D view of related languages by geography

A radial tree of the world's languages, branches fanning out from a single point.

Radial tree

Every language in its family tree

A dense field of thousands of coloured points and fine connecting lines, every family tangled through every other.

Entanglement

Language families as an entangled node diagram

A radial genealogy of writing systems drawn in ink on vellum, four independent inventions at the centre and later scripts branching outward.

The Tree of Writing

164 scripts and the lines of descent between them

A phrase-structure tree sketched by hand in pencil, branching down from a sentence into its noun and verb phrases.

Syntax Tree

Diagram any sentence as you type it