Populations (was: Re: release notes)

[Clytie Siddall <clytie riverland net au>]

On 10/03/2006, at 5:49 AM, Danilo Åegan wrote:

> As stated before, this is a number of first-language speakers.  Even
> Wikipedia, which counts together all the Thai speakers gives only a
> figure of 46-50 million which is far away from 65 million (of course,
> it's far away from 20 as well ;).  Theppitak, is the figure of 50
> million more like it (they seem to use the same Ethnologue data, yet
> explain that those are pretty much the same language and thus get this
> figure)?

What puzzles me is where this data comes from. I know last time we  
did the Release Notes, I queried the number of Vietnamese speakers,  
since the last official census in Vietnam reported a much larger  
figure than that in the release notes. I think it bugs any user group  
when information about them is seriously inaccurate.

from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhÃm  
Viát hÃa phán mám tá do)
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/vi-VN