MAPPING THE OVERLOOKED
Jayson DeNovellis, Amina Lampkin, Quinn Morris, Flo Ning
BIBLIOGRAPHY
The following sources were used to compile data and information for two of the three maps: the number of people that speak each language and the origin of the languages.
Accredited Language Services. (n.d.). Malay.
https://www.alsintl.com/resources/languages/malay/.
Accredited Language Services. (n.d.). Spanish.
https://www.alsintl.com/resources/languages/Spanish/.
Advantour. (n.d.). Language of Russia.
https://www.advantour.com/russia/language.htm.
Ancientscripts.com. (n.d.). Japanese.
http://www.ancientscripts.com/japanese.html.
Ancientscripts.com. (n.d.). Arabic.
http://www.ancientscripts.com/arabic.html.
BBC.org. (n.d.). A Guide to Hindi – 10 facts about the Hindi language.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/other/hindi/guide/facts.shtml.
Durkin, P. (n.d.). Old English—an overview.
http://public.oed.com/aspects-of-english/english-in-time/old-english-an-overview/.
Encyclopaedia Britannica. (2013). Apabhramsha language.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Apabhramsha-language.
Grimes, Barbara F. (ed.), 2000. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Fourteenth edition. Dallas, Texas: SIL International.
Lewis, M. Paul, Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig (eds.). 2016. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Nineteenth edition. Dallas, Texas: SIL International.
http://www.ethnologue.com/19/.
A Little Dynasty Chinese School. (n.d.). History of Mandarin Chinese.
http://www.alittledynasty.com/history-of-mandarin-chinese.html.
New World Encyclopedia. (2016). Bengali Language.
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Bengali_language.
Portuguese Language (n.d.). Portuguese Language History.
DATA
This is the data used to create the three maps for this project. It can be used to better understand the maps. It can also be used to compare the categories to see if they are correlated. Most Aged is definitely not correlated with the other two, while Most Spoken and Most Powerful have a slight correlation between each other.
Most Aged (When Language Originated)
Arabic and Hindi (3rd Century)
Japanese (5th Century)
Malay (7th Century)
English (8th Century)
Russian (9th Century)
Bengali (10th-11th Century)
Spanish (13th Century)
Portuguese (12th-14th Century)
Mandarin Chinese (20th Century)
Most Spoken (Number of People Who Speak the Language in the World)
1. Mandarin Chinese (896,002,080)
2. Arabic (457,441,550)
3. Spanish (424,555,530)
4. English (338,919,350)
5. Hindi (258,451,700)
6. Portuguese (199,900,010)
7. Bengali (188,521,700)
8. Russian (166,396,440)
9. Japanese (127,053,700)
10. Malay (15,824,000)
Most Powerful (Based on 100 People Surveyed)
1. English
2. Mandarin Chinese
3. Spanish
4. Japanese
5. Arabic
6. Russian
7. Hindi
8. Portuguese
9. Malay
10. Bengali
ABOUT THE PROJECT
Our project centers around languages. We specifically chose to work with the ten most spoken languages in the world, obtained from multiple sources. They are, in order, Mandarin, Arabic, Spanish, English, Hindi, Portuguese, Bengali, Russian, Japanese, and Malay. We then decided to rank the languages in three categories: age, popularity, and power. The age and popularity, or Most Aged and Most Spoken, data were obtained from various online sources. The power data was obtained from a survey of 100 people, in which they ranked the ten languages based on how much power, or how much of an influence, they perceive the language to have on society. In the maps, the countries are colored in based on their official language. Click to reveal the full images along with short descriptions!
LANGUAGE MAPS: MOST AGED, SPOKEN, AND POWERFUL
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“Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.”
Rita Mae Brown
