A data set containing counts of the number of words for 126 languages.

A long-form data set scraped from wikipedia containing an approximate number of words contained in dictionaries from 126 languages. The table was scraped from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dictionaries_by_number_of_words

Usage

n_words_by_language

Format

A data frame with 126 rows and 5 columns:

language

Name of the language (in English)

n_headwords

Number of headwords in dictionary

n_definitions

Number of definitions

dictionary

Official name of the dictionary queried

notes

Misc. notes

Source

https://github.com/jvcasillas/worldlanguages