File:Origins of English Words.svg

French is a Romance (Latin) language. This graph is very suspect without explaining itself further. Buyer beware

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The SVG file was produced using MatPlotLib with the following (also Public Domain) code.

#!/usr/bin/env python

from matplotlib import pyplot
from matplotlib import ticker
from matplotlib import numpy

# This generates a pie graph showing the origins of words in the English language.
# The data was taken from AskOxford.com in 2007.
#
# https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Origins_of_English_PieChart.svg

data = [
("Latin", 29),
("French", 29),
("Germanic", 26),
("Greek", 6),
("Unknown & Other", 6),
("From proper names", 4),
]

languages = [d[0] for d in data]
percents = [d[1] for d in data]

# Make a pie graph.
colors = ['yellow', 'lime', 'red', 'orange', 'cyan', 'magenta']
pyplot.figure(num=1, figsize=(9,5))
pyplot.axes(aspect=1)
pyplot.title('Origins of English Words')
pyplot.pie(percents, labels=languages, autopct='%1.f%%', colors=colors, pctdistance=0.8, startangle=-10)
pyplot.axis('equal')
pyplot.savefig('Origins of English Words.svg', format='svg', bbox_inches='tight')

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