Langs per nb locutors

README.rst

Most Spoken Languages per number of locutors

Source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_number_of_speakers

Numbers of locutors in millions.

langs_per_nb_locutors.png

langs_per_nb_locutors.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding:utf8 -*-

from matplotlib import pyplot as plt

data_locutors = {
    'Standard Chinese': 1151,
    'English': 1000,
    'Spanish': 500,
    'Hindi': 490,
    'Russian': 277,
    'Arabic': 255,
    'Portuguese': 240,
    'Bengali': 215,
    'French': 200,
    'Malay/Indonesian': 175,
    'German': 166,
    'Japanese': 132,
    'Farsi (Persian)': 110,
    'Urdu': 104,
    'Punjabi': 103
}

numbers = []

langs = sorted(data_locutors, key=data_locutors.get)

for k in langs:
    numbers.append(data_locutors[k])

plt.pie(numbers, labels=langs, colors=('r','g','b'))
plt.title("Number of locutors per languages\n(source : WP)")

plt.savefig("{}.png".format(__file__.split('.')[0]))