01 Dec 1741 linguistic map of Europe, Asia, and Africa
1741 linguistic map of Europe, Asia, and Africa by Jakub Marian Gottfried Hensel (1687–1765) was a German linguist. His book Synopsis Universae Philologiae, published in 1741, was an early work on comparative linguistics, which strove to present all the world’s languages known at the time together with their writing systems. The...