14 thoughts on “The World’s Most Spoken Languages”
Spaghetti Hoop
A beauty of a graphic.
Liam
can “chinese” really be lumped together as one single language. e.g. Mandarin and Cantonese aren’t mutually intelligible AFAIK?
Martin Heavy-Guy
They’re completely different languages that are wholly incompatible. And Urdu is spoken throughout Pakistan (192 million people, not 60 million). Questionable graphic.
f_lawless
It does help to read the the text first Liam and Martin Heavy-Guy.
(a)The creator clearly states he’s treating Chinese as a “macrolanguage”. Sometimes linguists refer to “Chinese” as such.
(b) He also clearly states the graphic represents “mother” or “native” tongues not how many people speak something as a second language. According to official census figures, Urdu is the native tongue of about 10 million people in Pakistan.
SusanTheSilent
Where’s Irish? *runs&hides*
Spaghetti Hoop
The Spanish were some divils for the colonies.
Bingo
As were the French. Where’s all the African countries that speak French?
Joe the Lion
What are you a divil for Hoop? Inquiring minds want to know
Good Lordy roll over
rebellious colon Es?
ffintii
Note how English is common in the old colonies where the natives were killed/genocided
Twunt
Genocide wasn’t an exclusively British trait, The Spanish and Portuguese were handy at it, at were the Turks and the Chinese, but all pail when compared to the Mighty Mongul army of Genghis Khan, the most murderous of them all.
Martin Heavy-Guy
To spend so much time making such a pretty graphic that is so horrendously inaccurate must be heartbreaking.
Frilly Keane
Its very pleasing
And would encourage you to study it
Wouldn’t it?
So its a pity its off
‘Cause t’would be a nice addition to a classroom wall
In that t’would open up discussion on learning more languages in a more sensible encouraging way
A beauty of a graphic.
can “chinese” really be lumped together as one single language. e.g. Mandarin and Cantonese aren’t mutually intelligible AFAIK?
They’re completely different languages that are wholly incompatible. And Urdu is spoken throughout Pakistan (192 million people, not 60 million). Questionable graphic.
It does help to read the the text first Liam and Martin Heavy-Guy.
(a)The creator clearly states he’s treating Chinese as a “macrolanguage”. Sometimes linguists refer to “Chinese” as such.
(b) He also clearly states the graphic represents “mother” or “native” tongues not how many people speak something as a second language. According to official census figures, Urdu is the native tongue of about 10 million people in Pakistan.
Where’s Irish? *runs&hides*
The Spanish were some divils for the colonies.
As were the French. Where’s all the African countries that speak French?
What are you a divil for Hoop? Inquiring minds want to know
rebellious colon Es?
Note how English is common in the old colonies where the natives were killed/genocided
Genocide wasn’t an exclusively British trait, The Spanish and Portuguese were handy at it, at were the Turks and the Chinese, but all pail when compared to the Mighty Mongul army of Genghis Khan, the most murderous of them all.
To spend so much time making such a pretty graphic that is so horrendously inaccurate must be heartbreaking.
Its very pleasing
And would encourage you to study it
Wouldn’t it?
So its a pity its off
‘Cause t’would be a nice addition to a classroom wall
In that t’would open up discussion on learning more languages in a more sensible encouraging way
Focail boga, maith thú.