Atlas statistics
Ten panels computed from the 201 languages in the atlas. Totals are 2026 figures (Ethnologue/Wikipedia) where available; the comparison uses the 2020 snapshot from the original infographic.
The sum counts the same person more than once when they speak several languages.
Speakers by family
Sum of total speakers of the languages in each family. Bar width is the total; the number on the right is how many atlas languages the family has.
The 25 most spoken languages
Native speakers (solid bar) and additional speakers (light bar). Languages without a native count show only the total.
Biggest changes from 2020 to 2026
Absolute change for the 98 languages with data in both editions. Left, the 12 largest gains; right, the 8 largest drops — drops usually reflect methodological revisions rather than real losses.
Lingua francas: where additional speakers dominate
Share of speakers who learned the language as a second language. Only languages with a native count and at least 10 million speakers.
Native × total
Each dot is a language; both axes are logarithmic. The farther from the diagonal, the larger the weight of additional speakers.
Heatmap: families × languages
Treemap where each rectangle is a language and the area is total speakers; colours group by family.
Countries with the most atlas languages
Number of atlas languages for which the country is listed among the main places where the language is spoken.
Distribution by size
How many languages fall in each band of total speakers.
Writing systems
Main script of the 100 infographic languages, grouped by system.
Audio coverage
Languages with the phrase recorded by a neural voice (Azure), by an open synthetic voice (Meta MMS), or still without audio.
Sources: WordTips infographic (2020, via Ethnologue), Ethnologue 200 (2026) and Wikipedia. Details on the Data page.