The world's most spoken languages and where they are spoken infographic
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Top Reddit comment:
- Telegu instead of Telugu, I don't know why this spelling wasn't checked.
- Urdu as a spoken first language distinct from Hindi is a bit silly IMHO. Would make more sense as "Hindustani". Bohot zyaada stupid hai.
- Lahnda? Really? Why not Punjabi? I am very confused by the use of the term Lahnda, which traditionally refers to a group of some 30 million speakers in the Punjabi-Sindhi continuum.
- Ukraine and Belarus are part of Asia Major
- The use of Asia Major unironically
- The part of the world where >50% of the humans of the world lives is "Asia Minor"
- Pakistan is the Middle East
EDIT:
- This is also a great example for /r/dataisugly - why are these languages next to each other? Why couldn't they be separate circles?
- Wouldn't language family be a better way to present some of this data? Seems like a missed opportunity
- And apparently Bangladesh is the Middle East too? It's the same color as Turkey?
Found here:
https://np.reddit.com/r/badlinguistics/comments/37qgdv/infographic_a_world_of_languages_and_how/
Thanks for the point to https://np.reddit.com/r/dataisugly, where I found http://viz.wtf/post/122682298130/the-inside-out-watermelon
More Reddit comments:
http://reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/37q4ra/a_world_of_languages/
TIL this is an awful infographic.
This one is a little better...
http://pandawhale.com/post/59586/family-tree-of-languages-shows-where-languages-come-from
...but I still haven't seen a great one.
6:12 AM Jun 30 2015