Comment by gucci-on-fleek
6 days ago
I think that it includes all the official languages of the UN [0], which is about as good as choice as any here.
[0]: https://www.un.org/
6 days ago
I think that it includes all the official languages of the UN [0], which is about as good as choice as any here.
[0]: https://www.un.org/
That explains the choice but not the order.
It does use the same order as the page you link to apart from English coming first, but where does that come from. It strikes me that it is alphabetic order in English if you call Mandarin Chinese.
Maybe stupid to point out on my part, but it HAS to be in a order. There's definitely a version of this that's just "the order we wrote it down" https://xkcd.com/221/
Though I think you're right that it's alphabetical by English name: Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, Spanish
I was sad about not including my language, but at least it comfort me.