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:
# Mandarin Chinese (836 million)
# Hindi (333 million)
# Spanish (332 million)
# English (322 million)
# Bengali (189 million)
The World Book gives similar numbers. Any way you slice it, Chinese is
waaaaaay out in front, and Hindi and English are both substantially
larger than Bengali.
> > The CIA Factbook says that Israeli Arabic is official only if you are
> > an Arab,
That was an editing error. I meant to write "says that Arabic is
official only if you are an Israeli Arab".
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