14/ Before we call it a day, we’ll leave you with two...

14/ Before we call it a day, we’ll leave you with two more interesting cases of linguistic cartography that will have you scrolling for hours.

The first project is an interactive sound atlas of France 🇫🇷 which plays recordings of Aesop’s fable “The North Wind and the Sun” in 140 varieties of regional French language.

This fable is famously the standard linguists use for comparative and transcription projects. Enjoy!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_North_Wind_and_the_Sun
https://atlas.limsi.fr/articles/

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OpenCage 👉🌍 replied to OpenCage

15/ For our 🇺🇸 American and 🇨🇦 Canadian friends - you will enjoy the amazingly detailed North American English Dialects map

https://aschmann.net/AmEng/

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OpenCage 👉🌍 replied to OpenCage

16/ And finally, because big is brilliant, let’s end this thread on the World Atlas of Language Structures.

An incredible study of over 160 maps showing the geographic distribution of structural linguistic features such as word order, number of genders and more.

You can see the complete list of linguistic items here and find the maps in the links. https://wals.info/chapter

We’ll leave you with a screenshot of one of the maps:

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OpenCage 👉🌍 replied to OpenCage

17/ So there you have it, linguistic atlases! Pretty fascinating, don’t you think? Be honest… how long did you spend listening to that fable and browsing the maps?

Thank you very much for reading (and sharing)!

We have more threads on #geoweirdness in specific regions and on other topics available over on our blog:

https://blog.opencagedata.com/geothreads

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