A data set with estimates of native speakers for 27 languages.

A long-form data set scraped from wikipedia containing an approximate number of native speakers for 27 of the world's languages. The data set also contains information regarding the language family, language branch, and other notes. The table was scraped from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of_native_speakers

Usage

native_speakers

Format

A data frame with 27 rows and 5 columns:

language: Language name in English
native_speakers_millions: Approximate number of native speakers (in millions)
language_family: Language family
branch: Language branch
notes: Misc. notes about the language

Source

https://github.com/jvcasillas/worldlanguages