Re: millions of speakers

[Sayamindu Dasgupta <sayamindu peacefulaction org>]

On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 02:01 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote:

> In GNOME 2.6, we have some new supported languages compared to GNOME
> 2.4. In the release notes we like to say how many people speak these
> languages. For the _new_ languages, I got these numbers from various
> places on the internet, because I did not find any single authoritative
> source. Do they look OK?
> 
> Arabic (170 million speakers)
> Canadian English (33 million) 
> Croatian (5 million) 
> Lithuanian (4 million) 
> Mongolian (10 million) 
> Ukrainian (41 million)
> Russian (170 million)
> Turkish (60 million)
>   

Don't forget Bengali - 189 million speakers :o)
[Source: http://www2.ignatius.edu/faculty/turner/languages.htm] 
Bengali stats currently stand at 82.1% of GNOME 2.6 essentials.

-sdg-


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