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Rappers' names, organized. Full size: http://j.mp/cCj04J

Think you'll enjoy these linguistic infographics! They cover a lot of territory: language families, linguistic diversity, to countries mapped by number of languages spoken, to American dialect maps, to bilingualism in the EU, to letter distribution in English...

English is, unsurprisingly, the most commonly spoken language across the US, and Spanish is second most common in 46 states and the District of Columbia. This infographic shows the most common language in every U.S. state, other than English and Spanish.

This article provides a brief overview and a few surprising facts about the role texting plays in our lives.

"Rather than focusing on network dynamics, they decided to analyze the tributes by language. Jobs wasn't just an American visionary, but truly global."

This post (a 2021 update of a 2018 post) contains several useful infographics and charts, including a visualization of the top 23 most-spoken languages in the world, distribution of those languages by country, a family tree of Indo-European languages.

Scientific American Mind, 18(4), 13-13. Infographic that talks about how non-verbal language reveals your roots and heritage, such as body language.