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Letter frequency | La Lettura

Visualization for la Lettura, Il Corriere della Sera, 12|04|15

Based on the data from the Wikipedia page “Letter frequency”,
for each of 14 different european languages, this visualization
shows an alphabet in which letters are scaled according
to their frequency. Languages that share similar frequencies
for the same letters are closer to each other, while letters
unique to each language are shown in the outer circle
of the language cluster. Blue lines indicate the strongest
affinity for each language.