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Cool World Language Stats Graphics

(I... can't... quite... remember how to use my blog... Oh yes. It's coming back to me now. I type here, right?)I saw this fun article "The world’s languages, in 7 maps and charts" from the Washington Post today and wanted to mention it. Notice where Chinese shows up in each graphic, for example:

It was also fun to be reminded (read: actually know for the first time) how many people are in the world (7.2 billion) and how many languages there are in the world (7102).