I have two comments: 

- if Hindi and Urdu are counted together, why not Italian and Portuguese?

- According to a lecture some time ago by a Israel professor (I forgot his 
name), there are 80 languages actively used in Israel, including Hebrew, 
Arabic, English (both varieties), Russian, Ukrainian, Yiddish, Ladino, Tagalog, 
most European languages, and various African and East Asian languages used by 
the large number of refugees from Africa and foreign workers from East Asia.

Best Regards,

Jonathan Rosenne

054-4246522

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And a tangent, picking up on a complaint that Swahili wasn't represented on one 
of the 7 WaPost graphics:

http://niamey.blogspot.com/2015/05/how-many-people-speak-what-in-africa.html

Two other recent posts on this blog ("Beyond Niamey") critique the Africa part 
of a set of graphics/maps of "Second Most Spoken Languages Worldwide" (on the 
Olivet Nazarene University site) - another thought-provoking effort that could 
inform better if redone. 

Don Osborn


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Sent: May 12, 2015 6:19 PM

On 05/12/2015 03:05 PM, Mark Davis ☕️ wrote:
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2015/04/23/the-worlds-languages-in-7-maps-and-charts/
> //////

And a critique:

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=18844

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