On 10/03/2006, at 5:49 AM, Danilo Šegan 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 / nhóm Việt hóa phần mềm tự do)
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