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INFOGRAPHIC: A world of languages - and how many speak them

SuckMyKiss

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English is the world lingua franca

A lingua franca (lingua francas), also known as a bridge language, trade language or vehicular language, is a language systematically (as opposed to occasionally, or casually) used to make communication possible between persons not sharing a native language, in particular when it is a third language, distinct from both native languages.[2] Lingua francas have developed around the world throughout human history, sometimes for commercial reasons (so-called "trade languages") but also for diplomatic and administrative convenience, and as a means of exchanging information between scientists and other scholars of different nationalities. The term originates with one such language, Mediterranean



INFOGRAPHIC: A world of languages - and how many speak them


We represent each language within black borders and then provide the numbers of native speakers (in millions) by country. The colour of these countries shows how languages have taken root in many different regions

Alberto Lucas López
PUBLISHED : Wednesday, 27 May, 2015, 9:05am
UPDATED : Thursday, 04 June, 2015, 5:14pm

There are at least 7,102 known languages alive in the world today. Twenty-three of these languages are a mother tongue for more than 50 million people. The 23 languages make up the native tongue of 4.1 billion people. We represent each language within black borders and then provide the numbers of native speakers (in millions) by country. The colour of these countries shows how languages have taken root in many different regions

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tanwahtiu

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Look at farking English colonized countries which they drugged their own British Subjects with opium for drug money to finance their homeland economic and technological development. Look closely the 4 States were full ocupied by the Pommies (the 4 WEIS races that form the British Empire).

Without cheap funds with products that can make 2000% profits there would not be British Empire occupied America, Canada, Australia and South Africa.
Out of the many countries that the evil Brit occupied how many of them will targeted for drug money and slavery trade money?

Look at Sierra Leone was targeted for slave trades and Singapore and Borneo were targeted for drug trades monopoly.

How evil was this race back in the 1700-1900 period? People call them racist and a real bloody evil doer racist.

Today they want to keep their evil past quiet hoping their victims will not stir shit to let their descendants know how evil their forefather was against the Chinese, drugging the Chinese and Singapore and Berneo Chinese( their non-white British Subjects).


British Empire Funded by Opium

Still, the real narco-republic in world history isn’t the United States, Mexico, Colombia or other transit points to the artificially created drug epidemic in the United States. This dubious honor actually goes to the British Empire, as their Bengal-to-China opium business during the time of Queen Victoria grew into the world’s largest commodity trade during the 19th century. Opium accounted for almost 20 percent of the Empire’s total revenue, yet opium was just the tip of the addictive trade.

In the United States and the British Empire addictive substances were the major business of British mercantilism. For example, the original British colonies like Jamestown and Virginia were economically unfeasible before the smoking of tobacco caught on in Europe and smoking and snuff created a cash crop from America.

Later, sugar from British Caribbean colonies was added to the British consumption of tea from China and the entire Empire became addicted to tea. But there was a problem. Unlike in the Americas where cotton and tobacco were traded for British manufactured goods, China simply said no to foreign imports.

Their leader, the Son of Heaven, wrote King George III in 1793: "We posses all things. I set no value on objects strange or ingenious, and have no use for your country’s manufactures." Great Britain had addicted their entire population to the stimulation of tea and sugar but China surprisingly demanded silver as payment for the tea. This created a permanent drain of gold and silver from the British Empire to China and a gigantic balance of payments deficit resulted that threatened the future solvency of the British Empire. This situation is very similar to China’s holdings of US Treasury debt today.


Opium Trade was Big Business for Americans

Also, it wasn’t just England involved; many Americans in New England also made their fortunes in the opium trade after the slave trade was outlawed. For example, Franklin Roosevelt’s grandfather, Delano, made most of the family fortune in the Chinese opium trade.

He was not alone. Many of the wealthy New England families built their fortunes on slave and opium trading. In fact, most of the American Ivy League universities were funded to a great degree when dirty money from the slave and opium trade was washed and then use to build new reputations for these families.

For example, John Cleve Green donated much of his opium profits to Princeton University, Abiel Abbott Low used his opium fortune to finance the construction of Colombia University, John Murray Forbes financed the Bell Telephone Company, Joseph Coolidge’s son organized the United Fruit Company and his grandson was the founding executive officer of the Anglo-American Council on Foreign Relations. This is just the tip of the iceberg in showing how many among the power elite made their fortunes with the China opium trade


https://www.lewrockwell.com/2012/09...f-conflict-anglo-american-and-chinesehistory/
 

Narong Wongwan

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Why thai not included? Thai population is around 70 million.
Anyway 50 million benchmark is too high set at 10-20 million is better
 

Agoraphobic

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True. The events in our history has led to this. Earth's early radio/TV broadcasts were mostly in English, and the ETs have picked it up. That's why Klingons, Ferrenghis, Vulcans, all are able to speak English. A few are even able to quote Shakespeare!

Cheers!


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