Trees and branches are often used by linguists as a visual metaphor to explain language origination.
This tree model explains the connections between groups of languages, which all descend from a commonancestral proto-language.
This visualization stemmed from Sundberg’s own webcomic,Stand Still.
Stay Silent, which is set 900 years in the future in a post-apocalyptic Nordic world.
Sundberg wanted to show why her characters could understand each other, despite them speaking different languages.
Scroll down to see more details of the artist’s infographic.
Despite being geographical neighbors, Finnish and other Scandinavian languages are derived from different roots.
The European region splits into Slavic, Romance, and Germanic branches.
Celtic languages, as well as Latin are shown as delicate twig-like branches.
Hindi originated from the Central Zone, while Bengali sprouts from the Eastern Zone.
Its about a young man and his shapeshifting dogs adventures, inspired by Finnish mythology.
