World's Most Spoken Languages 💬📊

Watch as this data visualization and bar chart race ranks the top 50 most spoken languages in the world, categorized into the following language families: Indo-European, Afro-Asiatic, Austronesian, Sino-Tibetan, Dravidian, Niger-Congo, and Other. It is ranked by 'total speakers' as opposed to 'native speakers'.

Chapters:
Oldest written languages
United States has no official language
Language with the most extensive alphabet
Onomatopoeias
Whistled language of La Gomera -- Silbo Gomero
Cryptophasia
Universal Language of the Skies
Fictional languages

How Do You Define A Language?
The data comes from the 22nd edition of Ethnologue, a database covering a majority of the world’s population, detailing approximately 7,111 living languages in existence today.

The definitions of languages are often dynamic, blurring the lines around a singular understanding of what makes a language:

Linguistic: focused on lexical and grammatical differences, or on variations within speech communities
Social: focused on cultural or political factors, as well as heritage and identity
For the purposes of measurement, the researchers use the ISO 693-3 set of criteria, which accounts for related varieties and dialects—ensuring that linguistics are not the only factor considered in this count of languages.

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📊 Data:
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/100-most-spoken-languages/

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/100-most-spoken-languages/
https://takelessons.com/blog/language-facts-z14
https://www.lingualinx.com/blog/12-interesting-facts-about-languages
https://word.tips/100-most-spoken-languages/
https://speakt.com/language-facts/
https://papuanews.org/papuan-languages/
https://www.treehugger.com/secret-language-cryptophasia-4862826
https://theculturetrip.com/africa/canary-islands/articles/whistled-speech-in-la-gomera-an-intangible-cultural-heritage/

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