Re: FYI: The world’s languages, in 7 maps and charts

[dzo at bisharat.net]

And a tangent, picking up on a complaint that Swahili wasn't represented on one of the 7 WaPost graphics:

http://niamey.blogspot.com/2015/05/how-many-people-speak-what-in-africa.html

Two other recent posts on this blog ("Beyond Niamey") critique the Africa part of a set of graphics/maps of "Second Most Spoken Languages Worldwide" (on the Olivet Nazarene University site) - another thought-provoking effort that could inform better if redone. 

Don Osborn


------Original Message------
From: Karl Williamson
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To: Mark Davis ☕️
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Subject: Re: FYI: The world’s languages, in 7 maps and charts
Sent: May 12, 2015 6:19 PM

On 05/12/2015 03:05 PM, Mark Davis ☕️ wrote:
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2015/04/23/the-worlds-languages-in-7-maps-and-charts/
> //////

And a critique:

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=18844

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