Visualization of world’s most spoken languages

Posted on June 19, 2016 by F. E. Guerra-Pujol
Proportional Pie Chart of the World’s Most Spoken Languages [2000x3261]

hat tip: unord, via reddit

About F. E. Guerra-Pujol

When I’m not blogging, I am a business law professor at the University of Central Florida.
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3 Responses to Visualization of world’s most spoken languages

  1. CHCollins says:
    June 20, 2016 at 22:33

    I like maps. I am curious whether this map (its major borders anyway) could have been drawn entirely (and accurately) with smooth continuous curves with no 3-vertex intersections, and awarding extra points if language areas were also geographically positioned. I must say I am surprised at the prevalence of Korean, about the same as German.

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    • Enrique Guerra-Pujol says:
      June 21, 2016 at 00:55

      Good points. Aside from the size of each language area (reflecting the number of language speakers of that language), I’m not certain if the spatial placements in this map are just arbitrary or randomly-generated.

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  2. jecgenovese says:
    June 21, 2016 at 12:28

    Reblogged this on peakmemory and commented:
    Good reason to keep learning languages!

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