Oddbean new post about login | logout world of #language s by number of speakers (location) https://image.nostr.build/2ae39476a221fa5e7f66705bf6193e7fc3078a0c2ba437f5e8b43f812702c067.png it does NOT take into consideration that some ENGLISH (good/broken/non-native dont care) is spoken/understood by more than 3 billion in the world. esp take all commonwealth countries 🇵🇭 + pacific + african countries etc
Remarkable the consolidation in languages that is happening worldwide. It feels like the ~7,000 languages spoken today will drop dramatically in the next hundred years. Guessing that the increasingly online world only accelerates this process.
