The Rise and Fall of Humanity’s Favorite Languages, Animated Across 4,500 Years

What language would you have been speaking 4,500 years ago? Ancient Egyptian? Sumerian? Old Chinese? And when exactly did English become the global heavyweight we know today? This animated graph from Data Is Beautiful takes viewers on a journey from 2500 BC to 2026, tracking the world’s most spoken …

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