>>513280209
It's true that the information rates don't differ as much as anon is claiming but there are still significant differences as I've posted above >>513279135.
French is the most efficient at around 47 bits/s average or 25% above the mean of many languages, with English just after. Then you have memetic languages like Hungarian which are noticeably less efficient (which makes it funny that it is a retarded magyar >>513273775 that jumped on me).
It is even more blatant when you look at the shapes of distributions and the tail end. Pic related is blurring everything below 50 bits/s. This shows the potential for very high information density when you desire it. Tonal languages don't even do bad on this front (see Viet and a bit of Mandarin) but again you have French then English leading and the rest of euro languages are nowhere to be seen.