Trying to choose a foreign language course? Researchers have attempted to identify the most worlds most influential languages by identifying sources of media that have been translated into multiple languages. This included analyzing data from 2.2 million book volumes that represented over 1,000 languages, examining articles on Wikipedia to see if editors were writing in multiple language, and studying Twitter tweets sent by 17 million users. Ultimately, English turned out to be the largest hub for information to be translated from one language into another in all three data sets. Other languages including Russian, German, and Spanish were also shown to serve as hubs to other languages, but to a lesser extent compared to English. The Global Language Network, a visual representation of the data, can be seen by following the link. It shows what languages are connected to one another, with the thickest lines indicating the strongest links. language.media.mit.edu/visualizations/books
Posted on: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 06:14:42 +0000
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