What language do you speak best? (Hypothesis: There are many French & German speakers in the Fediverse.)
Boosts appreciated!
French15%
German28%
English30%
(Other)25%
Replying to @rauschma@fosstodon.org
It’s also remarkable how many people speak “Other”! 🙈
EDIT: I was trying to make a joke by pretending “Other” was a language. But that clearly didn’t work. 😬
I expected the Fediverse to have many English & German speakers and had read that it was popular in France. I wanted to check these assumptions via a survey and my instance only lets me create four options. Beyond that, I didn’t know what to expect but the replies to my initial post show just how linguistically diverse the Fediverse is!
Replying to @rauschma@fosstodon.org
@rauschma supposedly the most spoken by first language are 1. Mandarin Chinese 2. Spanish 3. English ... and you missed the first two.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of_native_speakers
Edit: omitted the first two and included nos. 21 and 22. "Other" would get a lot more votes if poll-takers were representative of the global population.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of_native_speakersReplying to @ghouston@mamot.fr
@ghouston True! (As a silly joke, I pretended that “Other” is a language.)
Everything about this poll is indeed very unscientific (the sample etc.): https://fosstodon.org/@rauschma/117430069059928752
Axel Rauschmayer@rauschma@fosstodon.orgIt’d be very interesting to do a proper survey with a representative sample and an open set of languages!