The native Australians traveled so far in ancient times that Malagasy, the native language of Madagascar, is more closely related to the languages of Indonesia than mainland Africa.
Maltese, the language spoken in the tiny Mediterranean country of Malta, is descended from historical Arabic, but is written in the Latin alphabet.
The different varieties of Arabic are so different from one another that speakers in different Arabic-speaking countries would struggle to communicate with one another.
Danish, Swedish, and Norwegian, meanwhile are so similar to one another that the three can almost be used interchangeably. According to some estimates, 80% of Danish and Norwegian, in particular, are said to be mutually intelligible.
The Turkish language used to be written using the Arabic alphabet, but in 1928 the language switched over to the ABC’s of the Roman alphabet and has been written that way ever since.
In 2011, the Busuu language of Cameroon in West Africa was spoken fluently by just eight people.
Explanation: Have you ever had stars in your eyes? It appears that the eye on the left does, and moreover, it appears to be gazing at even more stars. The featured 27-frame mosaic was taken in 2019 from Ojas de Salar in the Atacama Desert of Chile. The eye is actually a small lagoon captured reflecting the dark night sky as the Milky Way Galaxy arched overhead. The seemingly smooth band of the Milky Way is really composed of billions of stars, but decorated with filaments of light-absorbing dust and red-glowing nebulas. Additionally, both Jupiter (slightly left the galactic arch) and Saturn (slightly to the right) are visible. The lights of small towns dot the unusual vertical horizon. The rocky terrain around the lagoon appears to some more like the surface of Mars than our Earth.