Global Second Languages

Movehub published this infographic showing second languages, with the citation of the data source from wikipedia.

They accompany the infographic with the following text commentary:

This map shows the second most common first language in (nearly) every country in the world. These are people who speak it as a first language, we decided this was a more revealing metric as it illuminates the ancient furrows of conquest, colonisation and recent immigration trends (see Polish in the UK).

English takes the crown as the most common second language around the world with 55 countries speaking it as a second language. France and Russia are second and third with 14 and 13 respectively.

The languages are grouped and colour-coded by language family (languages with a common ancestor).

Infographic courtesy of movehub.com : http://www.movehub.com/blog/global-second-languages

You might also like the interactive data visualization: The Global flow of Migration we posted this past April, if you’d like to find correlation between the two visualizations.

All comments and other sources welcomed!