speakers

Speaker count for 450+ languages.

Contents

• What is this?
• When should I use this?
• Install
• Use
• API
  • speakers
• Types
• Compatibility
• Security
• Related
• Contribute
• License

What is this?

This package provides speaker counts for many languages. Painstakingly crawled by hand from OHCHR.

👉 Note: the numbers are (in some cases, very) rough estimates or out-of-date.

When should I use this?

You can use this package if you want to get a (comparative) estimate of how many folks speak a certain language.

Install

This package is ESM only. In Node.js (version 14.14+, 16.0+), install with npm:

npm install speakers

In Deno with esm.sh:

import {speakers} from 'https://esm.sh/speakers@2'

In browsers with esm.sh:

<script type="module">
  import {speakers} from 'https://esm.sh/speakers@2?bundle'
</script>

Use

import {speakers} from 'speakers'

console.log(speakers.eng) // => 322000000
console.log(speakers.jpn) // => 125000000
console.log(speakers.por) // => 182000000
console.log(speakers.cmn) // => 885000000

API

This package exports the identifier speakers. There is no default export.

speakers

Map of ISO 639-3 codes to speaker counts (number).

Types

This package is fully typed with TypeScript. It exports no additional types.

Compatibility

This package is at least compatible with all maintained versions of Node.js. As of now, that is Node.js 14.14+ and 16.0+. It also works in Deno and modern browsers.

Security

This package is safe.

Related

• wooorm/bcp-47 — parse and stringify BCP 47 language tags
• wooorm/bcp-47-match — match BCP 47 language tags with language ranges per RFC 4647
• wooorm/iso-639-2 — ISO 639-2 codes
• wooorm/iso-639-3 — ISO 639-3 codes
• wooorm/iso-15924 — ISO 15924 codes
• wooorm/un-m49 — UN M49 codes

Contribute

Yes please! See How to Contribute to Open Source.

License

MIT © Titus Wormer