Global & Regional Connectivity
Which parts of the world can talk to each other?
Zoom out from single countries to whole continents and regions. See where multilingualism runs deepest, and how likely two random people from any two continents are to share a language — the Global Language Connectivity Index, aggregated.
Languages per person, by continent
Population-weighted ALPS — the average number of languages a person speaks at conversational level. Free for everyone.
ALPS = average languages per person, population-weighted across each continent’s countries.
Continent × continent connectivity
Each cell is the GLCI between two continents: how often a random person from each shares a language. Darker means more connected.
Here's Africa against every continent — a free taste of the full grid.
| Africa | Asia | Europe | North America | Oceania | South America | |
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| Africa | 27% | 4.7% | 19% | 26% | 32% | 4.7% |
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Down to UN sub-regions
The same two measures — ALPS and global GLCI — for each United Nations geographic sub-region.
Zoom all the way in
Continents and regions are the wide view. Drop to the deepest level and compare any two of the world's countries, one honest number per pair.
Open the country-pair matrix →