The Language of Beer

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This map shows the relative prevalence of the word for beer in the world's ten most spoken languages (by # of native speakers). However, because of the fact that there were no points at which the number of references in the world's sixth most-spoken language, Bengali, were greater than references to each of the other nine languages, we have excluded Bengali in this particular case. So while it's sad to see Bengali left off the map, the fact that a language with 181 million native speakers has so few references to "beer" is telling of either vast inequalities in the way Bengalis are represented within the geoweb, or perhaps just their general distaste for beer.
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Published by Floating Sheep
Designed by Taylor Shelton
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Added: 1 year ago

Rank: 37 of 1338 in Food

Tags: Beer, language, linguistics, geography, culture

Source: http://www.floatingsheep.org/2011/10/wherever-you-are-just-ask-for-beer.html

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