When 23 major languages ​​of the world are classified by the number of speakers and the use region, it becomes

ByTransition Network

It is said that there are at least 7102 languages ​​in the world, but the major languages ​​that more than 50 million people use as their mother tongue 23. South China Morning Post has released an infographic that divides the 23 languages ​​that a total of 4.1 billion people are using so that the number of speakers and areas of use can be known.

INFOGRAPHIC: A world of languages ​​- and how many speak them | South China Morning Post
http://www.scmp.com/infographics/article/1810040/infographic-world-languages


Although it is written small in the upper part of the infographic graphic, as the premise, the population on the earth is 7.2 billion people. Among them, 6.3 billion people included data "what kind of language speakers" is included in the data based on this infographic. And there are 4 languages ​​speakers of the 23 languages ​​subject to infographics.


Each language is color coded for each region being spoken. For example, North America is yellow, South America is blue, Western Europe is red, Africa is green. Japan is included in the beige "Asia Minor". In general, "Asia Minor" is translated as small Asia, there is TurkeyAnatolia (peninsula)It refers to.


The Japanese speaker is described as "128". This is "128 million people". Japanese has no speaker in other countries, so there is no "Japan 128" in the thick frame, but if it is spoken in more than one country, the name of the country and the story in the frame of the thick language The number of people is stated. For example, in the case of Persian written on the right side of Japanese, the total number of speakers is 57 million. Among them, 46 million Iran, 8 million Afghanistan, 1 million Pakistan. In addition, "+ sign in gray", it shows that it is spoken even in a different region although there are fewer speakers.


There are 335 million speakers in English. The highest number is 225 million in the United States, followed by 55.6 million in the UK, 19.4 million in Canada, 15.6 million in Australia, 4.9 million in South Africa. Because there are the United States and Canada, the yellow area showing the North America area is large, but it is shown that there are speakers in a wide area, mixed with other colors at least. Also, looking at the right side, the area of ​​"+" is quite large, so you can see that the speaker is scattered in various areas finely.


Like English, there are speakers in various countries Russian. Ukraine (8.4 million people), Belarus (6.4 million people), Uzbekistan (4 million people), Kazakhstan (380 people), Russia (138 million people), the total number of speakers is 166 million, Ten thousand people), Latvia (900 thousand people), I concentrate in the same area.


Arabic language used in Middle Eastern countries and African countries. The total number of speakers is more than 242 million, more than Russian, but most countries are Egypt's 72.7 million people, not as concentrated as Russia, by country.


In the Chinese occupying the lower left of the infographic graphic, the number of speakers is 1,177 million and the world's largest. In terms of percentage, the number of speakers in China is overwhelmingly 1,252 million. Although it is being described as "Chinese language speaker", as a first language as a dialectic existencePhrase(20.6 million people),Hakka language(30.1 million people),Emperor(4.6 million people),Jingu word(45 million people),Mandarin(885 million people),Jeonbuk(10.3 million people),Haitong language(912 million people),South Korean(46.6 million people),Shikanaku(3.1 million people),Shenzhen(2.56 million),Wu language(77.2 million people),Xiang language(36 million people),Yue language(62.2 million people) and that it is divided.


Both Portuguese and Spanish are languages ​​in which the language of the home country is not the number one speaker. In Portuguese, the total number of speakers is 203 million, the number one in Brazil is 187 million, the one in Portugal is 10 million. In Spanish, the total number of speakers is 399 million, the number one in Mexico 103 million and the one in Spain 38.4 million.