20 Words

select in the table below the languages you speak and click go.

missing!
by chelseagirl
waaaah! I liked your toy but one of my major languages wasnt' there: Scotish Gaelic. i notice irish isn't there eithre. But Gaelic is spoken Scotland AND in parts of Canada! so.... thanks!

and the colors mean
by w
what do the colors mean ??

very interesting but i seriously doubt the accuracy.

norway speaks english a lot more than canada and eeuu speaks russian. but compare the results.
see for yourself.

gigo?? cia disinformation? feature not a bug??

86%
by flaming_sheep
If you click on all the languages, it only comes out to 86% of the world, with no coverage in indonesia.

No french in africa ?
by FRaNKy
My knowled of french does not "light up" central africa. Whereas it is almost the official language in Congo (ex Zaire), Rwanda, etc I find this illogical ;)

Obvious next step
by markuci
My girlfriend can speak to ten percent more of the world's population than I can, but with her spanish it seems she can speak to many more countries. Her world was much more lit up than mine. It would be nice to know what percent of all nations that is, or some other simple cross reference, that would save us from doing the math. Nice project.

what is a language?
by lara
Bavarian-a language?

What about Frisian, ... then?
It is fun to see the world at your mouth and ears.

erm
by Katia
You have Croatian and Bosnian but not Serbian on your list. While some may argue that Croatian and Serbian are more or less the same language, if you're going to separate them out, you should at least put Serbian too. Or make one heading for Serbo-Croatian. Or use the more politically correct, generatlized B/C/S marking for all three.

Bavarian
by Em Ro So
The geographic region and Free State of Bavaria, with an area of 70,553 km² (27,241 square miles) and 12.4 million inhabitants, forms the southernmost and geographically largest state of today's Germany. Its capital is Munich.
Bavarians have always maintained a strong national identity. Some features of the Bavarian culture and mentality are remarkably distinct from the rest of Germany.
These three German dialects are spoken in Bavaria: Austro-Bavarian in Old Bavaria (South East and East), Swabian German (an Alemannic German dialect) in the Bavarian part of Swabia (South West) and East Franconian German in Franconia (North).
Bavarians are very proud of their marked dialects, and most of them speak with their Bavarian, Franconian or Swabian accent. As with traditions in general, cultivation of dialect and regional accent is not associated with backwardness, but is considered a strengthening of regional identity.