Proportional Map of the World's Largest Languages
Alberto Lucas Lopéz There are 7 billion people on earth and about 7000 languages , but more than half of the world ’s population speaks one of just 23 languages . This infographic , created byAlberto Lucas Lopézfor theSouth China Morning Post , shows the relative size of speaker universe for all the speech that have over 50 million speakers ( based on data fromEthnologue ) . It shows , quite strikingly , how giant the population of Chinese speakers is , equate to any of the other languages ....