Proportional Map of the World's Largest Languages...
June 9 2015 , Written by Ola Fagbohun
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Ola Fagbohun (@DiverseTraveler)June 09, 2015
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Proportional Map of the World's Largest Languages
There are 7 billion people on earth and about 7000 languages, but more than half of the world's population speaks one of just 23 languages. This infographic, created by Alberto Lucas Lopéz for the South China Morning Post , shows the relative size of speaker population for all the languages that have over 50 million speakers (based on data from Ethnologue).
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