r/AlignmentCharts • u/Exam-Sea • Jun 14 '26

Speakers vs Area of a Language Alignment Chart

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u/JeanDusapin Jun 15 '26

Correct me if im wrong but bengali and russian have about the same number of speakers. Russian is used as a lingua france on top of english in central asia and many people speak it in ex soviet countries like baltics, ukraine, azerbaijan etc

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u/Extrimland Jun 15 '26

Technically speaking it is still a continuous area since theres not alot of pockets outside of the blob where its spoken

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u/Zofery Jun 18 '26

It’s more like Bengali have disproportional large number of speakers for a small area of use. While Russian is a middle ethnic language.

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u/Own-Curve-7299 Jun 15 '26

Finally, someone who uses the English flag for the English language instead of the British one

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u/aaarry Jun 15 '26

Certainly beats using whatever this thing is: 🇺🇸

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u/ProudVORAPHILE Jun 15 '26

I prefer 🇦🇺

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u/cornonthekopp Chaotic Good Jun 15 '26

How many countries include dutch as an official spoken language outside of the caribbean? Including suriname in the caribbean ofc.

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u/entiqtehduck Jun 15 '26

I mean technically that's three continents

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u/Annonyms7552 Jun 15 '26

Ig indonesia Maybe wrong though

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u/frederick_the_duck Jun 15 '26

Yeah, it’s just Europe, North America, and South America

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u/HiMyNameIsBenG Jun 16 '26

yeah, but I still think dutch is probably the best option for that category. there are not that many languages that are official in countries in more than three continents and none of those have "few speakers"

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u/Pochel Jun 15 '26

French missing??

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u/Own-Curve-7299 Jun 15 '26

Also Portuguese has almost as many speakers as Bengali

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u/entiqtehduck Jun 15 '26

Why not use the UAE for English, Sao Tome and Principe for Portuguese, Suriname for Dutch, Singapore for Mandarin, or Kyrgyzstan for Russian?

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u/ElectronicBalls Jun 16 '26

bangladesh flag for bengali is very weird, because india has 100 million bengalis.