<div dir="ltr"><div>It is quite obvious the infographic merely scraped data from Ethnologue and such without schecking. For example, Austria is not listed among countries speaking German which is because the Ethnologue entry for Standard German, for some reason, only lists the Voralberg State for Austria (<a href="http://www.ethnologue.com/language/deu">http://www.ethnologue.com/language/deu</a>). There is also the mysterious figure of 0.7 million speakers of German in Austria. Now the only explanation for that I have is that a) they only consider Standard German and b) someone misunderstood the Swiss census figures: a comparable number appears in the entry for "Languages spoken at work" which is one of the categories that make the distinction betwen Deutsch and Schweizerdeutsch. The total population figures don't make that distinction, so there is no way to tell how many people in Switzerland speak Hochdeutsch and how many speak Schwyzertüütsch. (<a href="http://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/de/index/themen/01/05/blank/key/sprachen.html">http://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/de/index/themen/01/05/blank/key/sprachen.html</a>).</div>And then, of course, there are the usual problems of counting Hindi and Urdu as two languages and Arabic as one with 242 million native speakers, not to mention the ridiculousness of such an exact figure for the world's languages.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 4:49 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:info@scmp.com" target="_blank">info@scmp.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
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typo I noticed: Telugu spelled "Telegu", a common error<br>
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<p>There 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
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