{"id":144,"date":"2012-01-28T13:49:07","date_gmt":"2012-01-28T20:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/?p=144"},"modified":"2012-01-29T18:10:32","modified_gmt":"2012-01-30T01:10:32","slug":"languages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/?p=144","title":{"rendered":"Languages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been a bit of an amateur linguist since high school. Recently, I decided to look into which languages were the most spoken. I made a post on that, based on minimal intertube research. Now that I have a new table plugin <a href=\"http:\/\/tobias.baethge.com\/wordpress-plugins\/wp-table-reloaded-english\/\" title=\"wp-table-reloaded\">(courtesy of Tobias B\u00e4thge)<\/a>, I decided to take another stab at it. This time, I spent a couple of hours on Wikipedia and the CIA World Factbook. I included countries whose contributions were over 10,000,000 speakers.  For some languages, however, this wasn&#8217;t enough.  So I also included either the first two countries or the first three if the third was a significant contributor).<\/p>\n<p>[table id=3 \/]<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the &#8220;All Countries&#8221; number is only a rough estimate. Someday I may be induced to do an actual study. For now, however, I think this is adequate for informational purposes.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been a bit of an amateur linguist since high school. Recently, I decided to look into which languages were the most spoken. I made a post on that, based on minimal intertube research. Now that I have a new table plugin (courtesy of Tobias B\u00e4thge), I decided to take another stab at it. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions\/160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}