Re: millions of speakers

[Arafat Medini <lumina silverpen de>]

when googling with the terms: "most spoken language"

I found many sites with Arabic at fourth place with 235 million ppl, so
or Arabs are rabbits ;) or I made some counting mistakes! ;))
I would opt for 235!

yours
Arafat

Am Son, den 21.03.2004 schrieb Arafat Medini um 08:31:
> 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)
> >   
> 
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