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

[Jonathan Rosenne]

I have two comments: 

- if Hindi and Urdu are counted together, why not Italian and Portuguese?

- According to a lecture some time ago by a Israel professor (I forgot his name), there are 80 languages actively used in Israel, including Hebrew, Arabic, English (both varieties), Russian, Ukrainian, Yiddish, Ladino, Tagalog, most European languages, and various African and East Asian languages used by the large number of refugees from Africa and foreign workers from East Asia.

Best Regards,

Jonathan Rosenne

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

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


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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/
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And a critique:

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

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