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	<title>Language &#8211; Worldmapper</title>
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		<title>Spread of the Swedish Language</title>
		<link>https://worldmapper.org/maps/spread-of-the-swedish-language-2005/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[tina-gotthardt]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jan 2020 12:14:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Swedish is spoken by roughly 8.3 million people, in at least 10 territories. It is strongly related to Norwegian and Danish; in fact, all three are largely mutual intelligibe, and are often considered as dialects of a Scandinavian continuum.

Outside of Sweden, the largest Swedish-speaking population is in Finland; mainly the coastal areas of the south and west, and the Aland Islands. There are also smaller numbers of speakers in Norway, Iceland, the United Kingdom and Estonia, and further away in the United States and Canada.]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>The map shows the proportion of all people who speak Swedish as a first language that live in that territory in 2005. This map removes the countries where Swedish is dominant. This map therefore only shows 4.6% of all speakers of Swedish. The territory omitted is Sweden.</strong></p>
<p><em>Definition</em><br />
The maps in the 2005 language data series are made from data on the number of people speaking a language as their first-language, that is the language they would use at home.</p>
<p><em>Data sources<br />
</em>This map uses data several sources, the main one being <a href="http://www.ethnologue.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Ethnologue</a> (15th Edition, 2005). Estimating the number of speakers of a language is fraught with difficulty on several levels (last accessed January 2009). We aim to map as complete data as possible and therefore estimate data for missing values. The language numbers we use and publish are rough estimates, and should not be taken as definitive. In some cases, missing data for very small territories is not used in the cartogram and that area is therefore omitted in the map.</p>
<p>All modifications to the original data source are noted in our data sheets. Data for this map will soon be available as a download.</p>
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		<title>Czech Language</title>
		<link>https://worldmapper.org/maps/czech-language/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[tina-gotthardt]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jan 2020 09:57:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Czech is spoken by roughly 10 million people, in at least 11 territories. After the Czech Republic, the majority of speakers are in Slovakia and other neighbouring territories. There are also speakers in the United Kingdom and the United States.

Slovak and Czech are mutually intelligible, and might be considered to be dialects of the same language. Their influence on each other predates the creation of Czechoslovakia.]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Territory size shows the proportion of all people who speak Czech as a first language that live in that territory.</strong></p>
<p><em>Definition</em><br />
The maps in the 2005 language data series are made from data on the number of people speaking a language as their first-language, that is the language they would use at home.</p>
<p><em>Data sources<br />
</em>This map uses data several sources, the main one being <a href="http://www.ethnologue.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Ethnologue</a> (15th Edition, 2005). Estimating the number of speakers of a language is fraught with difficulty on several levels (last accessed January 2009). We aim to map as complete data as possible and therefore estimate data for missing values. The language numbers we use and publish are rough estimates, and should not be taken as definitive. In some cases, missing data for very small territories is not used in the cartogram and that area is therefore omitted in the map.</p>
<p>Further notes on the data, as well as all modifications to the original data source are noted in our data sheets.</p>
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		<title>Cantonese Language</title>
		<link>https://worldmapper.org/maps/cantonese-language-2005/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[tina-gotthardt]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jan 2020 17:25:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Yue Chinese, more commonly known as Cantonese, is most commonly spoken in the province of Guangdong, and the Special Administrative Regions of Hong Kong and Macau. As well as many speakers in other parts of Asia, there has been emigration from this part of China to Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia, so there are large Cantonese-speaking populations in these countries.]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Territory size shows the proportion of all people who speak Cantonese as a first language that live in that territory.</strong></p>
<p><em>Definition</em><br />
The maps in the 2005 language data series are made from data on the number of people speaking a language as their first-language, that is the language they would use at home.</p>
<p><em>Data sources<br />
</em>This map uses data several sources, the main one being <a href="http://www.ethnologue.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Ethnologue</a> (15th Edition, 2005). Estimating the number of speakers of a language is fraught with difficulty on several levels (last accessed January 2009). We aim to map as complete data as possible and therefore estimate data for missing values. The language numbers we use and publish are rough estimates, and should not be taken as definitive. In some cases, missing data for very small territories is not used in the cartogram and that area is therefore omitted in the map.</p>
<p class="p1">Further notes on the data, as well as all modifications to the original data source are noted in our data sheets.</p>
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		<title>Haitian Creole French</title>
		<link>https://worldmapper.org/maps/haitian-creole-language/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[tina-gotthardt]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jan 2020 11:42:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Haitian Creole is based on French, and like many creoles it developed from the need for slaves, mainly from west Africa and speaking various languages, to communicate with each other and French-speaking plantation managers. Hence the language is also influenced by African languages including Wolof, Fon and Ewe. It is now one of Haiti's two official languages, with French, and spoken by almost the entire population there. It is notable as a Creole for having being exported to a good number of other territories, largely due to the high levels of poverty in Haiti.

The number of speakers is roughly 8.3 million in at least 9 territories. Speakers numbering hundreds of thousands live in Cuba, the United States and the Dominican Republic. There are also a large number of speakers in the Bahamas, many of them there illegally, some on their way to the United States. Small Haitian Creole speaking communities are found in Canada, Puerto Rico, and France.]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Territory size shows the proportion of all people who speak Haitian Creole French as a first language that live in that territory.</strong></p>
<p><em>Definition</em><br />
The maps in the 2005 language data series are made from data on the number of people speaking a language as their first-language, that is the language they would use at home.</p>
<p><em>Data sources<br />
</em>This map uses data several sources, the main one being <a href="http://www.ethnologue.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Ethnologue</a> (15th Edition, 2005). Estimating the number of speakers of a language is fraught with difficulty on several levels (last accessed January 2009). We aim to map as complete data as possible and therefore estimate data for missing values. The language numbers we use and publish are rough estimates, and should not be taken as definitive. In some cases, missing data for very small territories is not used in the cartogram and that area is therefore omitted in the map.</p>
<p class="p1">Further notes on the data, as well as all modifications to the original data source are noted in our data sheets.</p>
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		<title>Burmese Language</title>
		<link>https://worldmapper.org/maps/burmese-language/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[tina-gotthardt]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jan 2020 10:26:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Burmese is spoken as a first language by roughly 35 million people, the vast majority of whom live in Myanmar (Burma). It is also spoken, in roughly descending order of population size, in China, Thailand, Bangladesh, the United States, Malaysia, Singapore and Australia.]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Territory size shows the proportion of all people who speak Burmese as a first language that live in that territory.</strong></p>
<p><em>Definition</em><br />
The maps in the 2005 language data series are made from data on the number of people speaking a language as their first-language, that is the language they would use at home.</p>
<p><em>Data sources<br />
</em>This map uses data several sources, the main one being <a href="http://www.ethnologue.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Ethnologue</a> (15th Edition, 2005). Estimating the number of speakers of a language is fraught with difficulty on several levels (last accessed January 2009). We aim to map as complete data as possible and therefore estimate data for missing values. The language numbers we use and publish are rough estimates, and should not be taken as definitive. In some cases, missing data for very small territories is not used in the cartogram and that area is therefore omitted in the map.</p>
<p class="p1">Further notes on the data, as well as all modifications to the original data source are noted in our data sheets.</p>
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		<title>Spread of Burmese Language</title>
		<link>https://worldmapper.org/maps/spread-of-burmese-language-2005/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[tina-gotthardt]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Dec 2019 10:36:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Burmese is spoken as a first language by roughly 35 million people, the vast majority of whom live in Myanmar (Burma). It is also spoken, in roughly descending order of population size, in China, Thailand, Bangladesh, the United States, Malaysia, Singapore and Australia.]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Territory size shows the proportion of all people who speak Burmese as a first language that live in that territory. This map therefore only shows 6.4% of all speakers of Burmese. The territory omitted is Myanmar.</strong></p>
<p><em>Definition</em><br />
The maps in the 2005 language data series are made from data on the number of people speaking a language as their first-language, that is the language they would use at home.</p>
<p><em>Data sources<br />
</em>This map uses data several sources, the main one being <a href="http://www.ethnologue.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Ethnologue</a> (15th Edition, 2005). Estimating the number of speakers of a language is fraught with difficulty on several levels (last accessed January 2009). We aim to map as complete data as possible and therefore estimate data for missing values. The language numbers we use and publish are rough estimates, and should not be taken as definitive. In some cases, missing data for very small territories is not used in the cartogram and that area is therefore omitted in the map.</p>
<p class="p1">Further notes on the data, as well as all modifications to the original data source are noted in our data sheets.</p>
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		<title>Spread of Panjabi Language</title>
		<link>https://worldmapper.org/maps/spread-of-panjabi-language/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[tina-gotthardt]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Oct 2019 00:30:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Panjabi means 'the language of the Punjab', a state in northern India. There are roughly 96 million speakers, in at least 14 territories. The vast majority of these are in India and Pakistan, although Panjabi has no official status in Pakistan. There are also significant numbers of speakers in Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom.

The language is sometimes known in English as 'Punjabi', but this is generally accepted to be a mispronunciation of 'Panjabi']]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>The map shows the proportion of all people who speak Panjabi as a first language that live in that territory in 2005 (India and Pakistan are omitted).</strong></p>
<p><em>Definition</em><br />
The maps in the 2005 language data series are made from data on the number of people speaking a language as their first-language, that is the language they would use at home.</p>
<p><em>Data sources<br />
</em>This map uses data several sources, the main one being <a href="http://www.ethnologue.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Ethnologue</a> (15th Edition, 2005). Estimating the number of speakers of a language is fraught with difficulty on several levels (last accessed January 2009). We aim to map as complete data as possible and therefore estimate data for missing values. The language numbers we use and publish are rough estimates, and should not be taken as definitive. In some cases, missing data for very small territories is not used in the cartogram and that area is therefore omitted in the map.</p>
<p>All modifications to the original data source are noted in our data sheets.</p>
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		<title>Welsh Language</title>
		<link>https://worldmapper.org/maps/welsh-language-2005/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[tina-gotthardt]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Oct 2019 13:04:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Welsh is a language of The United Kingdom. Roughly 0.8% of the population there speak it as a first language.

Welsh is a Celtic language, spoken by roughly half a million people as their first language. The majority of those are in Wales, where an effort has been made to revive the language. There are also thought to be around 200,000 in England, many of them in London or near the border with Wales. There is a Welsh community in the Chubut Valley in Argentine Patagonia, descendents of a group who left Wales in 1865. There are also Welsh speakers recorded in the censuses of the United States, Canada and Australia.]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Territory size shows the proportion of all people who speak Welsh as a first language that live in that territory.</strong></p>
<p><em>Definition</em><br />
The maps in the 2005 language data series are made from data on the number of people speaking a language as their first-language, that is the language they would use at home.</p>
<p><em>Data sources<br />
</em>This map uses data several sources, the main one being <a href="http://www.ethnologue.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Ethnologue</a> (15th Edition, 2005). Estimating the number of speakers of a language is fraught with difficulty on several levels (last accessed January 2009). We aim to map as complete data as possible and therefore estimate data for missing values. The language numbers we use and publish are rough estimates, and should not be taken as definitive. In some cases, missing data for very small territories is not used in the cartogram and that area is therefore omitted in the map.</p>
<p>Further notes on the data, as well as all modifications to the original data source are noted in our data sheets.</p>
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