The Europa Polyglotta is an eighteenth century map of the world's languages as well as alphabets. The map was published inward 1741 every bit purpose of Gottfried Hensel's early on operate on comparative linguistics, the Synopsis Universae Philologiae.
The map is divided into 4 continents of Europa, Asia, Africa as well as America. Each of the 4 continent segments includes a map of the continent as well as a listing of the alphabets used inward those continents. Countries on the maps are labeled yesteryear the languages that are spoken there. Each solid soil too includes the outset (and sometimes second) phrases of the Lord's Prayer written inward the local linguistic communication ('our begetter who fine art inward sky (hallowed hold upwards thy name)').
The languages of Europe seem to hold upwards real good covered. Asia appears to characteristic many of the major languages (although the Chinese as well as Japanese characters await real strange to me). The languages of Africa as well as America are hardly shown at all.
The map is colored to present the areas of the earth which were settled yesteryear the 3 sons of Noah. Japhet is pink, Shem is xanthous as well as Ham is green. I believe that inward the Synopsis Universae Philologiae itself Hensel argues that all languages derive from a mutual source inward Hebrew (presumably from the Tower of Babel myth).
