{"id":5418,"date":"2016-06-24T09:40:13","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T08:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/?p=5418"},"modified":"2016-06-26T14:16:22","modified_gmt":"2016-06-26T13:16:22","slug":"greetings-from-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/2016\/greetings-from-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Greetings from London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/GreetingsfromLondon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5419\" src=\"http:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/GreetingsfromLondon.jpg\" alt=\"GreetingsfromLondon\" width=\"3000\" height=\"1282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/GreetingsfromLondon.jpg 3000w, https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/GreetingsfromLondon-300x128.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/GreetingsfromLondon-768x328.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/GreetingsfromLondon-1024x438.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3000px) 100vw, 3000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>London boasts over 300 different spoken languages \u2013 more than any other city in the world. The capital\u2019s <em>lingua franca, <\/em>of course, remains English: 78% of Londoners cited it as their \u2018main\u2019 language in the 2011 Census. The other 22% speak in different tongues, including Urdu, Somali and Tagalog. This map from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/LONDON-Information-Capital-graphics-change\/dp\/1846148472?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=19450&amp;creativeASIN=1846148472&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;linkId=B52UPHCB623BPA74&amp;redirect=true&amp;ref_=as_li_tl&amp;tag=mappinglondon-21\"><em>London: The Information Capital<\/em><\/a>\u00a0celebrates the city\u2019s linguistic diversity by mapping how you\u2019d say \u2018hello\u2019 in the most frequently spoken languages aside from English. Each \u2018hello\u2019 has been scaled to show the percentage of people in each area who use it. Bengali is now the third most spoken language in the capital, behind Polish. So next time you are heading east of the City, give <em>salaam <\/em>a try, or <em>hola <\/em>south of the river. You might just get a <em>labas <\/em>or <em>ol\u00e1 <\/em>in return.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London boasts over 300 different spoken languages \u2013 more than any other city in the world. The capital\u2019s lingua franca, of course, remains English: 78%<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[960,237,90],"class_list":["post-5418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-data","category-demographics","tag-hello","tag-language","tag-london"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5421,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5418\/revisions\/5421"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}