#language statistics

[imakememesdurrrr]

[aethel]

I wanted to see how Chinese and Russian fans were doing post-AO3 bans, so I whipped up some Google charts.

data collected manually while logged in, using the work search and language tags

中文-普通话 國語 Русский Español Українська

[aethel]

Graph showing Russian-language fanworks posted per month on the AO3, as a percentage of all fanworks posted that month. I collected data from AO3′s works search, while logged in, on April 21, 2023.

I believe the spike in December 2022 was caused by the passage of a Russian law expanding the prohibition on sharing positive information or publishing media about LGBT people from just children to everyone.

[thelinguafile]

Language statistics!

Number of living languages: 6912

Number of those languages that are nearly extinct: 516

Language with the greatest number of native speakers: Mandarin Chinese [See Top 30 languages] Language spoken by the greatest number of non-native speakers: English (250 million to 350 million non-native speakers) Country with the most languages spoken: Papua New Guinea has 820 living languages. [See Top 20 countries]

How long have languages existed: Since about 100,000 BC First language ever written: Sumerian or Egyptian (about 3200 BC) Oldest written language still in existence: Chinese or Greek (about 1500 BC)

Language with the most words: English, approx. 250,000 distinct words Language with the fewest words: Taki Taki (also called Sranan), 340 words. Taki Taki is an English-based Creole spoken by 120,000 in the South American country of Suriname.

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