Data Is Beautiful

I’m no linguist, but on cursory pass I didn’t see any grave errors. As infographics by graphics designers go, this is rather good.

I like that it shows that the modern Arabic varieties don’t descend from Quranic (or Classical) Arabic.

I think it also makes sense to look at number of speakers for each language, as some languages have maybe 800 speakers in total, while others have 800 million.