Re: millions of speakers

[Arafat Medini <lumina silverpen de>]

What I heared long ago, was that Arabs near 300 million ppl, so I made
the counting myself with the official data of each country and indeed
you get 266 million ppl, who are/speak Arabic as their official
language.
SO I think if the Q would be how much Arabs are outa there, I would
maybe these 170 million refer to the Arabs, but if the Q would be how
much ppl speaj the language then I think 266 is the right number.

yours
Arafat

Am Son, den 21.03.2004 schrieb Murray Cumming um 02:01:
> 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)
>