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Power Language Index (May 2016)
Kai L. Chan, PhD
SPANISH
PLI rank: 4
PLI score: 0.330
Language family: Romance
Geographic coverage: Europe, Latin America
SPANISH
PLIrank: 4
PLIscore: 0.330
Languagefamily: Romance
Geographic coverage:
Europe, Latin America
VALUE
EXPERT OPINION
IND #
1
1.1
1.2
1.3
INDICATOR
GEOGRAPHY
Countries spoken
Land area (mn km2)
Tourists-in (mn)
2
2.1
2.2
2.3
2.4
2.5
ECONOMY
PPP GDP (Int$BN)
PPP GDP/cap (Int$)
Exports ($BN)
FX mkt share (%)
SDR composition (%)
7,813
17,438
1,265
6.0
3.2
5
5.1
5.2
5.3
5.4
3
3.1
3.2
3.3
3.4
COMMUNICATION
Native speakers (mn)
L2 speakers ( mn)
Family size (mn)
Tourists-out (mn)
470
90
383
59.4
OPP #
1
2
3
4
5
21.0
12.1
123.5
IND #
4
4.1
4.2
4.3
4.4
INDICATOR
KNOWLEDGE & MEDIA
Internet content (%)
Feature films
Top-500 universities
Academic journals
DIPLOMACY
IMF (indicator)
UN (indicator)
WB (indicator)
Index of 10 SNOs
OPPORTUNIY
OPPORTUNITY
Geography
Economy
Communication
Knowledge & media
Diplomacy
VALUE
4.6
219
17
28
1
1
1
0.8
RANK
3
5
3
7
3
Power Language Index (May 2016)
Kai L. Chan, PhD
ARABIC
PLI rank: 5
PLI score: 0.273
Language
family:
Spanish places
justSemitic
behind French, but its trajectory going forward may soon have it eclipse its
Geographic
coverage:
Middle
East
North Africa
Romance-language
rival
as Latin
America
grows.(MENA)
In terms of number of native speakers it trails just
Mandarin.
On the global diplomatic VALUE
stage it trails just
English
and French in facilitating global
IND # INDICATOR
IND
# INDICATOR
VALUE
communication.
Nevertheless, its global reach is limited
geography&asMEDIA
it is spoken only in
1
GEOGRAPHY
4 by its
KNOWLEDGE
Europe
Latin America.
1.1 and
Countries
spoken
20.5
4.1
Internet content (%)
0.8
ARABIC
PLI rank: 5
PLI score: 0.273
Language family: Semitic
Geographic coverage:
Middle East North Africa
(MENA)
1.2
Land area (mn km2)
13.9
4.2
Feature films
5
2.3
2.4
2.5
Exports ($BN)
FX mkt share (%)
SDR composition (%)
1,142
5.2
UN (indicator)
0.0
5.3
WB (indicator)
0.0 Kai L. Chan,
5.4PhD Index of 10 SNOs
3
3.1
3.2
3.3
3.4
E: [email protected] W: www.KaiLChan.ca
M: +971 (0)50 358-5317RANK
COMMUNICATION
OPP # OPPORTUNIY
OPPORTUNITY
Native speakers (mn)
295
1
Geography
4
L2 speakers (mn)
250
2
Economy
9
Family size (mn)
37
3
Communication
6
Tourists-out (mn)
49.2
4
Knowledge & media
18
5
Diplomacy
4
Amongst
the
five opportunities
Spanish
Media. But this is more
1.3
Tourists-in
(mn)
76.1fares worst on
4.3Knowledge
Top-500&universities
9 an
artefact of the dominance of English in this sphere rather
shortcomings,
4.4 than
Academic
journals per se, of the0Spanish
2
ECONOMY
language.
Nevertheless, the quality of intuitions of higher learning – and ergo the research and
2.1
PPP
GDP
(Int$BN)– in the Spanish-speaking
5,973
5 lagDIPLOMACY
knowledge
they
embody
world
that of those with English, French of
2.2 roots.
PPP GDP/cap (Int$)
14,916
5.1
IMF (indicator)
1
German
Distinguished Fellow, INSEAD
1
1
0.4
Arabic is the fifth most powerful language. It is spoken primarily in Middle East North Africa (MENA),
but its status as the language of the Quran compels many Muslims worldwide to study it. For this
supported
reason, it counts 250 million L2 speakers, second only to English. The strength
of Arabicbyis EUROBAK
also
supported by the prosperous economies of oil-rich Arab nations, a phenomenon that may retreat as
the price of oil has fallen sharply since peaking in 2014.
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