Scaling the Tower of Babel

Date 2nd Jun 2009
Submitted by Leo Murray on 2 June 2009 - 5:18pm

Tower of Babel

Unbounded gratitude is due to all of the hardy, generous souls who braved the enormous task of translating and subtitling Stupid into their native tongues. Global warming is a global problem (duh), but without your work, we would never have been able to show it to the majority of the world's population. So it's not just us that owes you thanks, it's the future of the planet and everyone on it. Thank you.

Languages The Age of Stupid has now been translated into:

LANGUAGE                NUMBER OF SPEAKERS (in millions)
1. Chinese (Hanji  simplified)  800 [also known as Chinese]
2. Hindi                        600
3. English                      508 [full subtitles for people who speak English as a second language]
4. Spanish                      483
5. Arabi                        280
6. Chinese (Hanji traditional)  250
7. Bengali                      189
8. Brazillian Portuguese        180
9. Russian                      125
10. German               95
11. French               78
12. Korean               78
13. Vietnamese           70
14. Fasi                         70
15. Italian                      61
16. Turkish              60
17. Thai                         60
18. Urdu                         60
19. Polish                       42
20. Romanian             26
21. Dutch                        25
22. Greek                        15
23. Serbo croat          20
24. Hungarian            15
25. Czech                        12
26. Hebrew               10
27. Swedish               9
28. Kiswahili (Swahili)   8
29. Danish                6
30. Finnish               6
31. Norwegian             5
32. Slovak                        6
33. Icelandic           0.031
34. Japanese            130