On Tue, Apr 06, 2021 at 03:21:26PM +0100, Tom Hughes wrote:
> On 06/04/2021 15:16, Tom Hughes wrote:
> >On 06/04/2021 14:47, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
> >
> >>I'm looking at https://languages.stg.fedoraproject.org/territories/pl/,
> >>and it says:
> >>
> >>be (0.58 %)
> >>csb official_regional (0.13 %)
> >>de official_regional (19 %)
> >>en (33 %)
> >>lt official_regional (0.021 %)
> >>pl official (96 %)
> >>ru (18 %)
> >>sli (0.031 %)
> >>szl (1.3 %)
> >>uk (0.39 %)
> >>
> >>I think it's be good to order those items by percentage, rather than
> >>alphabetically.
> >>
> >>But my question is: what are those numbers supposed to _mean_?
> >
> >As the page says the data comes from CLDR and that is documented here:
> >
> >https://unicode.org/reports/tr35/tr35-info.html#Supplemental_Territory_Information

Ah, cool.

"approximate figures for the literate, functional population for each
language in each territory: that is, the population that is able to
read and write each language, and is comfortable enough to use it with
computers."

> >Specifically those numbers are from the languagePopulation elements
> >in the most recent CLDR release.
> 
> The data for DE in PL in CLDR specifically references a source:
> 
> <reference type="R1277" 
> uri="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_minority_in_Poland";>regional-official
> in part of Opole Voivodeship; in Poland 325 schools with primary
> instr in German, estimate 37000 students. Real figure probably
> higher.</reference>
> 
> Though the numbers on that page don't get near the 7 million
> that is being claimed.

Yeah, that seems widely off. Wikipedia says "0.38%" which is in
approximate agreement with "0.5%" that I cited above.

I wonder how good the data is for other territories.

Zbyszek
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