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.
“There are
at least 7,102 known languages alive in the world today. Twenty-three of these
languages are a mother tongue for more than 50 million people. The 23 languages
make up the native tongue of 4.1 billion people,” says Lopez on his infographic.
“We
represent each language within black borders and then provide the numbers of
native speakers (in millions) by country. The colour of these countries shows
how languages have taken root in many different regions,” added Lopez.
You can see
the full pie chart in all its technicolor glory here.
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