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>>11935988
Not entirely true English does pretty well against other languages
>The distribution of SR (in syllables per second) (left) and IR (in bits per second) (right) within the languages in our database (colored areas; colors represent the language families) and across them (black areas at the top) using a Gaussian kernel density estimate. The black vertical lines spanning the whole plot represent the means (solid lines) ± 1 SD (dashed lines). The short black vertical lines represent the actual data points.

>>11209111
>If we assume that people speak at the same rate in bits per second
They don't. In fact Chinese (CMN and YUA on this graph) are slower languages than English when it comes to information throughput.

>>11114201
Here comes a challenger : French (lel).
46 bits/syllable


Source :
https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/9/eaaw2594
>Fig. 1 SR and IR.
The distribution of SR (in syllables per second) (left) and IR (in bits per second) (right) within the languages in our database (colored areas; colors represent the language families) and across them (black areas at the top) using a Gaussian kernel density estimate. The black vertical lines spanning the whole plot represent the means (solid lines) ± 1 SD (dashed lines). The short black vertical lines represent the actual data points.