{"id":13871,"date":"2015-06-30T08:22:23","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T12:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=13871"},"modified":"2015-06-30T08:22:23","modified_gmt":"2015-06-30T12:22:23","slug":"a-map-of-languages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/a-map-of-languages\/","title":{"rendered":"A map of languages"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"MapOfLanguages\"<\/a><\/p>\n

(Source: IFLScience<\/a>)<\/p>\n

This beautifully illustrated infographic (above), designed by South China Morning Post\u2019s graphics director Alberto Lucas Lop\u00e9z<\/a>, shows the most spoken known languages in the world and where they\u2019re spoken by the 6.3 billion people included in the study.<\/p>\n

Based on records collated from the database Ethnologue<\/a>, the infographic illustrates the wide-ranging facts and figures of the world\u2019s living languages catalogued since 1951.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere 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,\u201d says<\/a> Lopez on his infographic.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe 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,\u201d added<\/a>\u00a0Lopez.<\/p>\n

You can see the full pie chart in all its technicolor glory here<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Source: IFLScience) This beautifully illustrated infographic (above), designed by South China Morning Post\u2019s graphics director Alberto Lucas Lop\u00e9z, shows the most spoken known languages in the world and where they\u2019re 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[508,3],"tags":[3936,3938,3937],"class_list":["post-13871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-2","category-news","tag-alberto-lucas-lopez","tag-languages","tag-map-of-languages"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-3BJ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7665,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/sean-crunches-language-numbers-tibetan-shows-increase\/","url_meta":{"origin":13871,"position":0},"title":"Sean crunches language numbers: Tibetan shows increase","author":"Thomas","date":"October 23, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Sean Gilbert, International Editor for the World Radio TV Handbook (WRTH),\u00a0posted the following information on WRTH's Facebook page. 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