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How Many Languages Sit in the Middle?
Out of roughly 7,000 living languages, only a few hundred have at least 100,000 speakers — a quiet middle ground almost nobody discusses. This episode counts that band, from the ten languages above 100 million speakers down to the steep drop-off, and surfaces million-speaker languages most people have never heard of: Aymara, Tigrinya, Sylheti, and Fula, with 25 million speakers across the Sahel. Then it turns to what it's actually like inside a mid-sized language, using Hebrew's ten million speakers as the case study — the structural pressure to learn English, the "cozy" creative scene where…
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