Languages spoken by country (2015)

A bipartite network of languages and the countries in which they are spoken, as estimated by Unicode. Edges are weighted by the proportion of the given country's population that is literate in a particular language.[^icon] [^icon]: Description obtained from the [ICON](https://icon.colorado.edu) project.

npx keepset fetch netzschleuder-unicodelang

Nodes: 868
Edges: 1,255
Size: 19.2 KiB

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Overview

Id	`netzschleuder-unicodelang`
Namespace	`netzschleuder`
Aliases	`unicodelang`
Category	`graph/v1`
Kind	graph
Domain	Informational network
Licence	not recorded by the source
Catalogue	`keepset` 1.33.0

Sources and provenance

#	URL	Status	Retrieved	Read by recipe	Pinned snapshot	SHA-256
0	http://konect.cc/networks/unicodelang	live	2026-04-20		20260421135427raw	`b38eb20ecf25`
1	https://networks.skewed.de/net/unicodelang	live	2026-04-20
2	https://networks.skewed.de/net/unicodelang/files/unicodelang.csv.zip	live	2026-04-20	yes	20261022024619raw	`c826c6ae59ee`

Citations

J. Kunegis "Unicode languages network dataset" KONECT (2016) doi:10.1145/2487788.2488173

Recipe

Source	#2
Archive	zip
Member	`edges.csv`
Parser format	`"edge-list"`
Parser encoding	`"utf-8"`
Parser delimiter	`"comma"`
Parser skipLines	`0`
Parser commentPrefixes	`["#"]`
Parser sourceColumn	`0`
Parser targetColumn	`1`

Crosswalk

keepset/topology to graph/v1, as a crossmap crosswalk.

Rule	From	To	Direction
move	`meta`	`meta`	both
move	`nodes[].id`	`nodes[].id`	both
move	`edges[].source`	`edges[].source`	both
move	`edges[].target`	`edges[].target`	both

Expected counts

Edges	1,255
Nodes	868

Properties

Directed	no
Download bytes	19.2 KiB
Heterogeneous	yes
Multigraph	no
Self loops	no
Weighted	no