The Cellar / Who's Talking What?

**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 4/09/2024 1:16 am

Not talking but speaking would be proper.
I fell for this clickbait of the top 100 languages.
It's a poster 11" wide and 40 inches high which may make sense to the guy that gathered the info and designed it. But even full size I had trouble reading the tiny print. It daisy chained the roots of these 100 tongues showing some that died or or more often merged. But we know if the don't talk American they ain't good guys.

Continued...

**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 4/09/2024 1:25 am

Now since I'm always dedicated to edumacating the unwashed masses I sacrificed my time and effort to pull the information from that poster that I'm interested it.
That being the language and it's group root, it's ranking, number of speakers and native speakers.
That means they are not listed #1 through #100 in order.
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**Posted by Diaphone Jim** 4/09/2024 11:30 am

Why is "spoken" Arabic emphasized?

**Posted by Clodfobble** 4/09/2024 12:38 pm

I believe they are all various dialects of Arabic, in the same way that Cantonese and Mandarin are the same language when written, but are pronounced so differently that they are two languages when spoken.

**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 4/28/2024 12:26 am

I agree, they separated the various languages/dialects grouped as Arabic.