The South China Morning Post published a similar infographic:
A world of languages - and how many speak them
http://www.scmp.com/infographics/article/1810040/infographic-world-languages
Hmmm. How accurate can it be? They forgot Austria, and got Switzerland
wrong by almost a power of 10.
Mark https://google.com/+MarkDavis
*— Il meglio è l’inimico del bene —*
On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 10:18 AM, Denis Jacquerye moy...@gmail.com wrote:
The South China Morning Post published a
As a speaker of both Portuguese (mother tongue, native) and Spanish
(father, not native anymore) with a Catalan connection (dad was from
Barcelona and I lived there for a few months, amazing language, love it to
bits), I would say these two languages are closer to each other than
Italian to
Italian and Portuguese are difficult to understand between each other
(especially in speech: Italians speak really too fast)
On the opposite, exchanges between Standard French and Iberian Portuguese
is really easy, with low time of adaptation, either for native French
coming in Portugal for the
I have two comments:
- if Hindi and Urdu are counted together, why not Italian and Portuguese?
- According to a lecture some time ago by a Israel professor (I forgot his
name), there are 80 languages actively used in Israel, including Hebrew,
Arabic, English (both varieties), Russian,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2015/04/23/the-worlds-languages-in-7-maps-and-charts/
On 05/12/2015 03:05 PM, Mark Davis ☕️ wrote:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2015/04/23/the-worlds-languages-in-7-maps-and-charts/
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And a critique:
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=18844
And a tangent, picking up on a complaint that Swahili wasn't represented on one
of the 7 WaPost graphics:
http://niamey.blogspot.com/2015/05/how-many-people-speak-what-in-africa.html
Two other recent posts on this blog (Beyond Niamey) critique the Africa part
of a set of graphics/maps of
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