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HarryVaDerchie t1_j5y2kgk wrote

I see the Anal tongue is not very popular.

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SaturniusN t1_j5ypkl6 wrote

I wonder if there is much crossover between Anal and Ho

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Arimotomeku t1_j5y09o6 wrote

No front but this is ugly data.

Like first of all pls go with the highest one on top instead of these irrelevant ones that are way less important. People look at the top first and therefore should there be the most important things/biggest data points.

Second, this is way to much data, you don't need to list every single thing, at some point it's fine to put everything to "others" if it adds nothing to the data provided. Like at minimum after 0.01 no one cares about every single language anymore, maybe even earlier.

Would look way smoother if it wouldn't be such a long drawn out list.

Hope you perceive this as positive criticism to help you get your data ordered better and not as random hate.

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Charmanderflamethrow OP t1_j5y0o7e wrote

thanks , yes I did think about the points you told before I posted,

The main reason I did that way is to showcase the diversity of India. Hence I put all those so called "insignificant" ones in the chart. Languages are dying a slow death, this is my way of shedding light on them. I dont think they are insignificant . I want every language to be represented.

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Tintenklex t1_j5y81yu wrote

If you want to present the data in a beautiful way, this isn’t the way. Maybe you can sort them by something else? A network diagram on „familiarities between Indian languages spoken by at least [whatever the numerical value of 0,1% of Indians is]“ and showcase them and all their intricacies that way. But this is just a list that is made very long by the way it’s presented.

I applaud your enthusiasm for the diversity of language, though! Great to see!

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IAmTiborius t1_j5yu1ec wrote

Did I miss Sora, or is it so small that it didn't make the list?

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Arimotomeku t1_j5y3u2i wrote

Ahh okay, then I understand why you did it. But still maybe it would be better to say that there are many more languages or put an number to the "others" line because I don't think many people will read all the names anyway. Maybe a headline which states the diversity of the Indian people directly on the dataset would be helpful to add to the point you are trying to make. Thing I am trying to say is that there are better ways of getting your point across then having a mile long dataset which many people just glance over. Compact info with focus on the point you want to get across is way more attention receiving.

But like the first comment these are just my two cents to it.

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sisiredd t1_j6002jd wrote

Am I the only one who finds the presentation quite interesting? It is surprising, and the scrolling down forces you to realise how many languages there are in India that the average Westerner has never heard of. I wouldn't call it beautiful, but it's creative and thought-provoking. Way better than just another ugly pie chart.

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justindoherty405 t1_j606g7r wrote

Yes the effect works for me, OP wanted to say : there are so many unique and beautiful languages in India

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eric5014 t1_j5y4e47 wrote

TIL there is a Bhojpuri language with 50M speakers.

A large number of them look insignificant at 0.001-0.01%, but that's still like 10-100k people. The Australian census lists 500 languages including over 200 Aboriginal languages, some of them with number of speakers in one or two digits.

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Deceptikhan42 t1_j5yefaf wrote

You want every language to be represented? Even though most of them are just quasi dialects of another language.

And this data is 30 years old

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Charmanderflamethrow OP t1_j5yw9nl wrote

No, dialects are clubbed together as one, example Saurashtra is under Gujrati

In the north eastern states, there are countless languages.

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nkj94 t1_j5znxzo wrote

>Even though most of them are just quasi dialects of another language

In India it goes the other way, they club different languages under one umbrella

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empstat t1_j5zdgn2 wrote

Kudos to OP for trying something different. Major languages are more well-known.

An added map idea would be to show which languages are spoken mostly in which states (if the data is available).

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Tiny_Jellyfish4759 t1_j5zybdy wrote

How has no one pointed out that it just says "Axis Title" for the title of the x-axis...

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Misbrukt t1_j5yfnpx wrote

If I can’t do anal, I will go to war

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boganvegan t1_j5y8ac9 wrote

What about English? Even back in 1991 I think there were children of parents with different mother tongues, living in major cities who learned English before other languages and spoke English at home.

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stupidbutgenius t1_j5yfihw wrote

English is on there at 0.022% or about 250k. I would have expected higher as well.

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realLRM t1_j5yzuwe wrote

List is of Mother Tongues not languages spoken

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stupidbutgenius t1_j5z07le wrote

I'm aware, but I know a couple of Indians who grew up speaking English at home and I thought it was more common - but it is probably just that the people who migrate from India to English speaking countries are far more likely to have been English native than the general population.

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zookeeper25 t1_j62qi7c wrote

People from different mother tongues marrying each other and their children speaking English at home is a fairly unique phenomenon from the last 10 years. 30 years ago those children were probably speaking Hindi at home.

Secondly, there is absolutely no correlation between those speaking English at home and those migrating to English-speaking countries. Almost everyone who has received a decent level of education has studied English in school. It’s not their mother tongue but it’s their second or third tongue - and that’s good enough to immigrate. Almost All university level education is in English. So the more educated people that you have encountered in your country have all studied a lot of their subjects in English

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boganvegan t1_j5ypjwg wrote

I missed it in the long list, this is based on the 1991 census, I'm sure it's higher now

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trikristmas t1_j5zzvth wrote

Hey, Indian dude! How do you communicate with your mum? Just anal.

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juan-de-fuca t1_j61izu0 wrote

War! What’s it good for?! 0.003%. Oh? Ok. Thanks.

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It_hurtsss t1_j5yqy5v wrote

Ay Bengali here. Wonder if Bengali is still the second.

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JFKontheKnoll t1_j605hsq wrote

It is. According to the latest census, Hindi is first, Bengali is second, Marathi is third, Telugu is fourth, and Tamil is fifth.

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Pexd t1_j5yx7mg wrote

I thought Tamil was rare. I was wrong

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popular_parity t1_j6jlxiu wrote

Tamil use people are much greater when we consider globally. Half of srilanka , Malesia and Singapore people speak tamil as their first language

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justindoherty405 t1_j606mau wrote

I’d like to see one with a map! Not familiar with the regions of India ( US )

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I_sure_like_data t1_j61sa96 wrote

Gotta love axis title, one of my favorite labels for sure

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Chris-1235 t1_j5zxehp wrote

The perfect example of a long tail, visualized in a way that makes it look like a long thread instead /s

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waghkunal93 t1_j5z1rwd wrote

Data is Beautiful, but the way this is distributed or showcased is blatant terrible. Like put some efforts into visualization please!!

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cowboy_dude_6 t1_j60c9n5 wrote

Format is a default excel bar chart. You didn’t even bother to change the font or color. Both axes are literally titled “axis title”. The data is from 1991. The most interesting and relevant information is at the bottom, buried under a sea of obscure languages. Data is fucking ugly.

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