Data Stories: Mapping Global Languages
The history of language development, today's most-spoken languages, and the smallest language.
- By Upside Staff
- July 7, 2021
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This interactive Tableau graphic shows the relationships between Proto-Indo-European and all the languages that developed from it.
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This huge infographic shows the 100 most-spoken languages in the world and their historical roots. It also includes information about the number of native speakers for each language.
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Toki Pona is an invented language designed to emphasize simplicity, and it’s actually so simple that the entire vocabulary can be viewed in this chart.
Read more and compare the vocabulary size to other languages in this post on Observable.