Sprachen und ihr ökonomisches Gewicht

Taking up an idea put forward by Joshua A. Fishman and the coauthors of The Spread of English (1977), this article gives an up-to-date ranking of languages according to their economic power. Figures are calculated based on GDP and number of native speakers. For example, in the case of French the ranking is the sum of the GDP of France, 0.45 of the GDP Belgium, and 0.26 of the GDP Canada. The five economically most powerful languages are – in decreasing order – English, Japanese, German, French, and Spanish.

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Translated title:
The Economic Power of Languages (English)
Published in:
Japanstudien 5
(1994), p. 481-483
Date Issued:
1994
ISBN:
3-89129-368-2
Language:
German
Type of Resource:
Text
Place Term:
München
Publisher:
Iudicium Verlag
DDC subject:
900 Geschichte und Geografie
Hosting institution:
German Institute for Japanese Studies Tokyo
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