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a12345 / speakersPerLanguageWithDupes Public domain

Number of speakers for languages on Wikidata (including dupes due to measuring speakers at different times / from different sources); 1614 of 6915 wikidata languages have #speakers listed — ~1960 rows, last changed 9 months ago
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handy for correlation
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handy for correlation

Pandas

To load this dataset into pandas, do the following

import pandas as pd
# you just use the same url as the table page
speakersPerLanguageWithDupes = pd.read_csv("https://csvbase.com/a12345/speakersPerLanguageWithDupes", index_col="csvbase_row_id")

R

To load this dataset into R, do the following

# you just use the same url as the table page
speakersPerLanguageWithDupes <- read.csv('https://csvbase.com/a12345/speakersPerLanguageWithDupes')