This beautifully illustrated infographic (above), designed by South China Morning Post’s graphics director Alberto Lucas Lopéz, shows the most spoken known languages in the world and where they’re spoken by the 6.3 billion people included in the study. Based on records collated from the database Ethnologue, the infographic illustrates the wide-ranging facts and figures of the world’s living languages catalogued since 1951.
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Very cool article and chart that outlines all the many languages currently spoken in the world. No wonder localization and translation are so tough!
Take a look at this–it’ll put things in perspective!
–techcommgeekmom
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