A data set with total numbers of speakers for a variety of languages.

A long-form data set scraped from wikipedia containing the number of L1 and L2 speakers of 45 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_total_number_of_speakers

Usage

total_speakers

Format

A data frame with 45 rows and 7 columns:

language: Language name in English
family: Language family
branch: Language branch
notes: Misc. notes about the language
l1_speakers: Number of L1 speakers
l2_speakers: Number of L2 speakers
total_speakers: Total number of speakers (L1 + L2)

Source

https://github.com/jvcasillas/worldlanguages