Do you want to know when the Chukchi “finger”? What do they think in New Guinea? Why does the author's last name sound like Reontief in Japanese and where are the longest words found? How is the Russian language related to Bengali and Persian? Where do words travel and why in some languages there are hundreds of them, and in others - hundreds of thousands? You will find answers to these and other, no less interesting questions in the book by academician Alexei Leontyev “A Journey through the Map of the Languages of the World”. Works dedicated to the science of language studies , - linguistics, its past, present and future, are written vividly and quite accessible and will make the reader think about many things about which he may have had no idea before.