--- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, Marco Cimarosti
<marco.cimarosti@...> wrote:

> Richard Wordingham wrote:
> > According to the Ethnologue entry for Naskapi at
> > http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=NSK , there

are no

> > more than 70 speakers literate in the dialect (language by
> > Ethnologue's reckoning). When do you think Google will get round

to

> > implementing searches that aren't thrown by these variations?
>
> They'll never do that, of course! And I think that the world will survive
> that: I doubt that 70 people will ever generate enough web content to

make

> it necessary to have Naskapi-language searches on Google...

Of course, the 70 are the _native_ speakers! Michael Witzel has just
reported a Sanskrit language googling page -
http://www.google.com/intl/sa/ ! They still need a bit of work on the
menus - and you can't google for pages in Sanskrit! Of course, there is
quite a bit of Sanskrit stuff on the net, but I wonder how much of it is
tagged as being in Sanskrit.

I haven't checked whether it manages not to distinguish anusvara and
homorganic nasals.

Richard.