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It's long been suspected that Koreans are really fast with rhythm games and have high APM because of their language getting to the point faster.
Turkish seems inefficient. You spend the effort to talk quickly but don't get the reward of high info transfer speed like Spanish.
The words are very modular and systematic, but you seemingly pay a price for it.
Wollen sie etwa behaupten, die Informationsübermittlungsgeschwindigkeit der deutschen Sprache sei unterdurchschnittlich? So eine Unverschämtheit!
I am curious about Arabic. I feel like it should be having the highest information rate.
What makes you think that? I'm curious. I would've assumed something like Inuktitut (1 word conveys subject verb object tense ...) or something like toki pona (removes unused information) or maybe a highly analytical language like one of the Chinese languages.
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English is pictured as such a smooth, almost perfectly normalized bell curve. On one hand it's such a versatile language that (largely due to colonialism) has undergone so much evolution and mixing with other languages that I can believe that. On the other hand it looks almost too normal. Odd.
Could be bias. But, I wonder if it could be because English has borrowed so much from other languages.
It’s also interesting that English and French look so similar in the graphs. Both, have been the de facto international language for a long time.
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Thai is so efficient
Opposite. Look at the notes at the top of the graphs
Not as efficient as others in bits per second, but interestingly the syllable-to-bits ratio is tightly coupled.
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Hard to tell. Need something like "bits of information per syllable" to get at efficiency. Just eyeballing it, Vietnamese, English, and Cantonese seem most likely the most efficient.
Cantonese and Vietnamese make sense, as they're are both tonal languages (along with Mandarin, Thai, Punjabi, and Cherokee apparently). English wastes tones on communicating stress or question vs statement.
That was the issue I had with my elementary school spanish teacher. He spoke so fast that you just couldn't latch onto anything. It just sounded like DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDS aqui. DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDRS agostos.
Italian has a wildly different set than everyone else pretty much.
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