This is so, so beautiful and powerful.
India has thousands of living languages. We usually sort/sequence languages by number of speakers. Instead, this guy skimmed off the top 120 languages and flattened out the list, to get this.
Kavin: What? 120? There must be like 10 languages and the rest are just derivatives?
Me: Not derivatives, but sister languages. Like Haryanvi... when they speak do you really know what they are speaking?
Kavin: No, not really (laughs).
Languages are beautiful. And so is data.
[That green is all what we call "North East" India. If this is the linguistic diversity (each with >10K speakers), imagine the cultural diversity. I've been to the Don Bosco institute in Shillong a few times, but that also seems to just be scratching the surface here.]
India has thousands of living languages. We usually sort/sequence languages by number of speakers. Instead, this guy skimmed off the top 120 languages and flattened out the list, to get this.
Kavin: What? 120? There must be like 10 languages and the rest are just derivatives?
Me: Not derivatives, but sister languages. Like Haryanvi... when they speak do you really know what they are speaking?
Kavin: No, not really (laughs).
Languages are beautiful. And so is data.
[That green is all what we call "North East" India. If this is the linguistic diversity (each with >10K speakers), imagine the cultural diversity. I've been to the Don Bosco institute in Shillong a few times, but that also seems to just be scratching the surface here.]