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The World’s Most-Spoken Languages In A Single Infographic
This fascinating infographic elegantly breaks down the world’s most popular languages and the countries in which they are spoken. Specifically, the circle represents the 4.1 billion people around the world who speak one of 23 of the world’s most-spoken languages as their native tongue – the numbers of people speaking an actual language in any given country may actually be higher. It was created for the South China Morning Post by Alberto Lucas Lopez, an infographic journalist. Be sure to view the full-sized version to get all the details!
More info: lucasinfographic.com | Twitter | scmp.com (h/t: designtaxi)
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PatriciaHankins 10 years ago
I think Alberto Lucas Lopez haven't done his research well. Is he, at all credible? lol There are a lot of ancient and dead languages which most of this modern languages came from. Latin, for example, is a mother language of a lot of languages; a lot of English words are derived from it actually. And a lot of countries are in the wrong categories. The author of this post is merely copy and pasting things which SEEMED valid in his own eyes; not doing any further research on what he is posting.
AaronLozano 10 years ago
Like the fact Spain s 47 million instead of 38 million at the moment. small mistake right? just 9 million down is nothing. On the other hand, Latin while a mother language is already dead unless we think of scientific research naming conventions. Even my own language is missing in the graph. (Catalan= 11 million speakers)
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Hans-MartinSalzmann 10 years ago
Not well done :-( The real number of native german speakers: Germany: 81 Mio. Austria: 8 Mio. Switzerland: 5,6 Mio Makes a total of 94,6 Mio!
VolTron 10 years ago
This totally left out the 2nd largest English speaking country in the world- India with 150 million English speakers. Also the Philippines- at least 60 million English speakers there! Not accurate chart. If you're going to include USA under Spanish you have to do the same with other countries that speak English. Total English speakers in the world is 1.2 billion.
StéphaneArdubel 9 years ago
The same could be said about french, about half of Africa is speaking french...
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HugoPeixoto 10 years ago
Please delete this, you are speading wrong information, theres not even one true thing in this infographic..
TyrellAnderson 10 years ago
Actually, some things are true, such as English being the most popular language.
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LionelSalavin 10 years ago
Some stuff can't be summed up that easely. What about the country with several native tongues? What about the native english/french speaker from Africa? Sorry, but I don't have a very good feeling looking at that infographic...
ZaneUzkliņģe 10 years ago
I must admit , in Latvia lot of people understand and speaks russian, but latvian language is far, far away from russian language. We (Latvians) have latin alphabet, but Russians are using cyrillic alphabet. Of course we have some simmilar words, but we also have some with german, english as well.
davido 10 years ago
Neuztraucieties, grafika rāda tikai pasaules lielakās valodas, un Latvija ir iekļauta tikai tāpēc, ka tur dzīvo krievvalogīgi cilvēki. Neviens neapgalvo, ka latviešu valoda un krievu valoda ir vienādas! Pats esmu no Lielbritanijas, un iemācījos latviešu valodu, dzīvojot Rīgā. Es labi zinu, ka tās valodas ir ļoti dažādas!
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NilayTokaoğlu 10 years ago
In Azerbaycan Ozbekistan Turkmenistan Kırgızistan Kazakistan China Russia; millions of people speaks Turkish!
jevais 10 years ago
I beg your pardon. French is not spoken and written in Africa? Please get your facts right. Africa has several countries where French is taught at school. Look it up on the net. TV, radio, news papers, road signs, menus at the restaurants, road signs are in French. Look up the ex- colonies of France.
Load More Replies... PatriciaHankins 10 years ago
I think Alberto Lucas Lopez haven't done his research well. Is he, at all credible? lol There are a lot of ancient and dead languages which most of this modern languages came from. Latin, for example, is a mother language of a lot of languages; a lot of English words are derived from it actually. And a lot of countries are in the wrong categories. The author of this post is merely copy and pasting things which SEEMED valid in his own eyes; not doing any further research on what he is posting.
AaronLozano 10 years ago
Like the fact Spain s 47 million instead of 38 million at the moment. small mistake right? just 9 million down is nothing. On the other hand, Latin while a mother language is already dead unless we think of scientific research naming conventions. Even my own language is missing in the graph. (Catalan= 11 million speakers)
Load More Replies... Hans-MartinSalzmann 10 years ago
Not well done :-( The real number of native german speakers: Germany: 81 Mio. Austria: 8 Mio. Switzerland: 5,6 Mio Makes a total of 94,6 Mio!
VolTron 10 years ago
This totally left out the 2nd largest English speaking country in the world- India with 150 million English speakers. Also the Philippines- at least 60 million English speakers there! Not accurate chart. If you're going to include USA under Spanish you have to do the same with other countries that speak English. Total English speakers in the world is 1.2 billion.
StéphaneArdubel 9 years ago
The same could be said about french, about half of Africa is speaking french...
Load More Replies... HugoPeixoto 10 years ago
Please delete this, you are speading wrong information, theres not even one true thing in this infographic..
TyrellAnderson 10 years ago
Actually, some things are true, such as English being the most popular language.
Load More Replies... LionelSalavin 10 years ago
Some stuff can't be summed up that easely. What about the country with several native tongues? What about the native english/french speaker from Africa? Sorry, but I don't have a very good feeling looking at that infographic...
ZaneUzkliņģe 10 years ago
I must admit , in Latvia lot of people understand and speaks russian, but latvian language is far, far away from russian language. We (Latvians) have latin alphabet, but Russians are using cyrillic alphabet. Of course we have some simmilar words, but we also have some with german, english as well.
davido 10 years ago
Neuztraucieties, grafika rāda tikai pasaules lielakās valodas, un Latvija ir iekļauta tikai tāpēc, ka tur dzīvo krievvalogīgi cilvēki. Neviens neapgalvo, ka latviešu valoda un krievu valoda ir vienādas! Pats esmu no Lielbritanijas, un iemācījos latviešu valodu, dzīvojot Rīgā. Es labi zinu, ka tās valodas ir ļoti dažādas!
Load More Replies... NilayTokaoğlu 10 years ago
In Azerbaycan Ozbekistan Turkmenistan Kırgızistan Kazakistan China Russia; millions of people speaks Turkish!
jevais 10 years ago
I beg your pardon. French is not spoken and written in Africa? Please get your facts right. Africa has several countries where French is taught at school. Look it up on the net. TV, radio, news papers, road signs, menus at the restaurants, road signs are in French. Look up the ex- colonies of France.
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