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Explore the globe through language. Type a word and see where it came from and every word it's related to across languages.

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Where the words come from

Word data from Wiktionary's contributors, extracted by wiktextract on kaikki.org, CC BY-SA 4.0, and from the Etymological Wordnet by Gerard de Melo, CC BY-SA 3.0. The globe places languages from Glottolog, CC BY 4.0, on land outlines from Natural Earth, public domain.

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