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The Language of Beer

Shading repre sents more references to "be er" in one language than to all others. e.g. a light blue circle indicates more references to beer in Mandarin than in all other languages. Language data from www.ethnologue.com. Bengali (181 mil.) not included. Data collected in April 2011. Floatingsheep.org More Mandarin More More More Arabic More Hindi (182 mil.) More Portugue se Ru ssian (178 mil.) (144 mil.) More More More German Spanish (329 mil.) English (328 mil.) Japanese (122 mil.) (845 mil.) (221 mil.) (90.3 mil.)

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 numb... er 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.

Publisher

Floating Sheep

Designer

Taylor Shelton