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World Communication Planner

City-Wise Language details: Do note that city-wise language surveys have not taken place for most Countries. Country language break-up is thus assumed to apply to all cities within each Country.

FAQ

Q - Does Prarang conduct surveys to collect language data of different cities/ countries ?
A - Prarang does not conduct surveys. We rely on public information spread across various government, news sources & public domain websites. Language surveys are done by each of the 195 country governments in varying frequencies & various formats, often as part of population census exercises. Besides country government websites & news sites, we validate data using reliable multilateral sources ( World Bank data, UN bodies) & additionally use public sources including but not limited to Wikipedia, Ethnologue etc. This does involve a lot of estimation ( for eg. population bench-marked to year 2023 for all nations, based on growth-rate ignoring aspects of literacy growth rate or even declines due to wars etc) , to create comparable metrics.

Q - How does Prarang obtain city-level linguistic data of the countries in the world?
A - Except India, city level language surveys have not taken place in most countries. We therefore apply the country language-wise percentages to each of the respective cities of the country, to estimate City-wise language split. For Indian cities, we have the unique results of Census 2011 where precise data is available for 4500+ cities in each of the 120 Indian languages ( not just the official 22 languages) which had more than 10,000 speakers at a national level in 2011.

Q - What is the criteria used by Prarang to select the cities in the World Communication Planner?
A - Cities of the world ( 195 countries) with more than 100K population in 2023 , have been included in the Planner.

Q - How transparent is Prarang's data and methodology?
A - Prarang maintains full transparency regarding its data sources and estimation methodologies. For each data field, users can access detailed information about the sources and methods by clicking on the "i" icon on the platform. This feature allows users to understand and verify the basis of the data and analysis.

How to use

Global Communication Planner is a tool designed to facilitate communication strategies across over 4,000+ largest cities of the world ( Population > 100,000 citizens in 2023). While there are thousands of spoken languages in the world, each country selects a set of its own " Official" languages. For eg. India has 22 Official languages listed in its constitution. It is noteworthy that there are approximately 180 " Official" languages in the 195 countries of the world today.

This Global Communication planner tool is structured to provide detailed linguistic insights of these 180 languages in the world's largest Cities. While Country language survey data is available for most countries of the world, language surveys at City or Village level have not been undertaken by most countries. India stands as an exception, where for the first time, the Government of India in Census 2011 conducted a comprehensive city-level language survey too. This survey covered more than 4,500 cities and recorded data for 120 different languages. Our Global Communication Planner City language breakup therefore assumes that Country language break-up holds for respective Cities, within that Country ( except in Indian Cities, where accurate 2011 census data is available).

Please follow the following steps to use the Communication Planner :

Step 1: Continent Selection

Begin by clicking on the name of a Continent.

A drop-down menu will appear, listing the Countries within that Continent, the number of Cities in the country that have a population greater than 100K and the sum of population of those Cities. The list will contain only those countries which have at least one City having a population greater than 100K.The list is sorted by the number of Cities.

Step 2: Country Selection

Select a Country from the list.

A pop-up window will display the names of cities in that Country with populations greater than 100K, the population of the City, the Mother tongue ( assumed to be the " Most spoken" language of the Country/City) of the City and top 4 languages which are most spoken after the Mother tongue. The percentage of people speaking the language in the city is mentioned in brackets for each language.

The planner can be used to design focused communication strategies based on the linguistic profile of the biggest Cities of the world.

Sr no.	City Name	Big city Population	Mother Tongue	Language 2	Language 3
1	Kathmandu	1,324,058	Nepali (43.1%)	Urdu (2.5%)	N/A
2	Pokhara	349,721	Nepali (43.1%)	Urdu (2.5%)	N/A
3	Lalitpur	299,176	Nepali (43.1%)	Urdu (2.5%)	N/A
4	Biratnagar	270,407	Nepali (43.1%)	Urdu (2.5%)	N/A
5	Janakpur	257,920	Nepali (43.1%)	Urdu (2.5%)	N/A
6	Bharatpur	195,052	Nepali (43.1%)	Urdu (2.5%)	N/A
7	Birgunj	183,570	Nepali (43.1%)	Urdu (2.5%)	N/A
8	Butwal	159,684	Nepali (43.1%)	Urdu (2.5%)	N/A
9	Dharan	158,232	Nepali (43.1%)	Urdu (2.5%)	N/A
10	Bhimdatta	140,812	Nepali (43.1%)	Urdu (2.5%)	N/A
11	Dhangadhi	137,249	Nepali (43.1%)	Urdu (2.5%)	N/A

World Communication Planner

World Communication Planner - How to use this Planner?

Step 1: Continent Selection

Step 2: Country Selection