translate-tools/linguist

Collect database with most used langauges

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#558 opened on Jul 12, 2025

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Description

Let's collect database of most used languages in machine readable format with next structure

  • ISO language code
  • total speakers count
  • native speakers count

Later we could use this database to prioritize search for volunteers to maintain a locale files. Or to automate maintaining with LLM.

Current goal is to find a source of information about languages usage. We need list with at least 200 languages. Information about methodology of data extraction is mandatory. Otherwise this data would be useless, since may be randomly generated.

Some links (mostly useless garbage sites with pay walls and no info about methodology)

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Research direction
Find and document reliable data sources for language speaker counts (ISO code, total and native speakers) for at least 200 languages, including methodology. Start with Wikipedia and academic resources, avoiding paywalled sites.
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