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Visualizing the World’s Most Widely Spoken Languages in 2023 (www.smartick.com)

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is only showing native speakers so I feel like the title's a bit misleading

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

it's saying first-language speakers

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It only says that below the main title, and from the wording it's also unclear if that's what it's actually intended to show or just the cutoff for a language being represented.

Like, it could be interpreted as showing L1+L2 speakers of languages with >50m L1 speakers

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think that one should always read the subtitles anyway

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Ok. I admit I missed the label in the top right saying "Native Speakers (millions)"