The Europa Polyglotta is an eighteenth century map of the world's languages in addition to alphabets. The map was published inwards 1741 equally business office of Gottfried Hensel's early on come about comparative linguistics, the Synopsis Universae Philologiae.
The map is divided into 4 continents of Europa, Asia, Africa in addition to America. Each of the 4 continent segments includes a map of the continent in addition to a listing of the alphabets used inwards those continents. Countries on the maps are labeled past times the languages that are spoken there. Each seat down likewise includes the offset (and sometimes second) phrases of the Lord's Prayer written inwards the local linguistic communication ('our begetter who fine art inwards sky (hallowed hold upward thy name)').
The languages of Europe seem to hold upward really good covered. Asia appears to characteristic many of the major languages (although the Chinese in addition to Japanese characters await really strange to me). The languages of Africa in addition to America are hardly shown at all.
The map is colored to demonstrate the areas of the globe which were settled past times the 3 sons of Noah. Japhet is pink, Shem is yellowish in addition to Ham is green. I believe that inwards the Synopsis Universae Philologiae itself Hensel argues that all languages derive from a mutual root inwards Hebrew (presumably from the Tower of Babel myth).
Buat lebih berguna, kongsi:
