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by Mikera 4906 days ago
That chart is statistically meaningless.

It just shows % change since an arbitrary date in the past. Obviously, since different languages are on different parts of the growth curve, it results in a pretty unfair comparison. In particular, it will give very high values for any language that happened to be starting from a very small base at the beginning of the time period under consideration.

log of absolute values would be a much more interesting chart.