The map shows that English is one of the most widely spoken and written languages worldwide. The impact of the British Empire and continued influence of the British Commonwealth in Asia, North America, South America and Africa also contributed towards making English a dominant language in many pa...
汉语 means languages spoken by Han people (around 92% of the population of China) 中文 means languages spoken by Chinese people, including other languages spoken by ethnic minorities in China. 📸 On this map the Mandarin group is in dark green, the Jin group is also included as light ...
Austronesian languages, family of languages spoken in most of the Indonesian archipelago; all of the Philippines, Madagascar, and the island groups of the Central and South Pacific (except for Australia and much of New Guinea); much of Malaysia; and scat
Nigeria is a country located on the western coast of Africa that has a diverse geography, with climates ranging from arid to humid equatorial. Hundreds of languages are spoken in Nigeria, including Yoruba, Igbo, Fula, Hausa, Edo, Ibibio, Tiv, and English
Another prominent tongue on any language map of Asia is Arabic. Arabic is a language spoken in Asia, Africa, and parts of Europe. Within the Asian continent, it has official language status in 13 countries: Bahrain, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi ...
Do you think you can guess the third most common language spoken in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, or Maine, for example? What about Rhode Island, Vermont, and Connecticut? Ok, so before I looked at this WordFinder study, I decided to guess on my own. I guessed French for Maine, Vermont...
Thanks to Tomomi Sasaki (coincidentally of AQ, whose AQ Lift we recently featured) for the tip on this very cool Twitter language visualization from Eric Fische
Looking at total speakers, Mandarin is the second most widely spoken language in the world. However, it's the most spoken language in the world if you count onlyfirst-language(native) speakers due to China's significant population. Mandarin is not actually a language but a set of dialects ...
Top Languages Spoken by Region As well as speaker numbers, I think it might also be interesting to consider how regional variation contributes to the Nigerian languages map. Northeast Nigeria We can see, for example, that both Hausa and Kanuri are important Nigerian languages in the northeast ...
Celtic languages, branch of the Indo-European language family, spoken throughout much of Western Europe in Roman and pre-Roman times and currently known chiefly in the British Isles and in the Brittany peninsula of northwestern France. On both geographic