{"id":7665,"date":"2013-10-23T08:14:09","date_gmt":"2013-10-23T12:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=7665"},"modified":"2013-10-23T08:14:09","modified_gmt":"2013-10-23T12:14:09","slug":"sean-crunches-language-numbers-tibetan-shows-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/sean-crunches-language-numbers-tibetan-shows-increase\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean crunches language numbers: Tibetan shows increase"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sean Gilbert, International Editor for the World Radio TV Handbook (WRTH)<\/a>,\u00a0posted the following information on WRTH’s Facebook page<\/a>. He has kindly given permission to share this on the SWLing Post.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\"WRTH2013\"<\/a>Sean writes:<\/em><\/p>\n

“I have just been looking at the reductions in SW\/MW output by international broadcasters and SW output by domestic broadcasters (where possible) in a language-by-language form. I have been keeping records of the top 19 languages used by broadcasters, since the B10 season, and I can see a reduction in output on 18 of those 19 languages. The only language to show an increase is Tibetan.<\/p>\n

The languages that have suffered the most reduction (since the B10 season) are:
\n#1 German (-53%);
\n#2 Russian (49.6%);
\n#3 Farsi (-48.8%);
\n#4 Spanish (-45.7%);
\n#5 Portuguese (-43.7%);
\n#6 Indonesian (-36.9%);
\n#7 French (-32%);
\n#8 English (-31.2%);
\n#9 Arabic (-28.5%)
\n#10 Vietnamese (-22.5%)<\/p>\n

This is based on the schedules we use in WRTH<\/a> and, as the data is processed in the same manner each season, this does give a reasonable portrayal of the situation.<\/p>\n

In contrast to this, Chinese is only down by -5% and Korean 1.1%, while Tibetan is UP 7.3%. The Far East languages, to be fair, tend to have a much slower decline than the more Westerly languages.<\/p>\n

The table below shows the top languages in order of popularity (i.e. frequency of use). Chinese is the language that stands out as being the one with a noticeably slower decline. This is borne out when you tune the SW broadcast bands! I will fill in the B13 data after WRTH has been published.”<\/p>\n

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Sean Gilbert, International Editor for the World Radio TV Handbook (WRTH),\u00a0posted the following information on WRTH’s Facebook page. He has kindly given permission to share this on the SWLing Post. 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