def get_characters(lang_data):
    """
    Return a sorted list of characters in the language corpus.

    Parameters
    ----------
    lang_data : list of str
        A list of all paragraphs

    Returns
    -------
    characters : Counter Object
    """
    from collections import Counter
    characters = Counter()
    for paragraph in lang_data:
        characters += Counter(paragraph)
    return characters
