John Cowan <cowan@...> wrote on 09/15/2003 04:20:40 AM:

> Marco Cimarosti scripsit:
>
> > Unluckily, no two sources give the same numbers and, well, apologizes

to SIL

> > people here but The Ethnologue's estimates do not have great fame of
> > reliability.
>
> Okay. Comrie's 1988 numbers for Encarta...

For languages like this, Ethnologue will be using published population
figures, so the most the compilers can be faulted with is not knowing what
source can be considered reliable. Especially for South Asia, I doubt that
there is any source that can be confidently considered reliable.



Peter