ELL: Fwd: Tribes, population

[Marion Gunn]

Have to say such headcounts of speakers do not impress me -- it is a bit
like putting a higher value on rats/chickens because they outnumber
whales/people.
mg


Ar 09:00 -0400 2001-04-25, scríobh Mike Cahill:
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And of course, there is the Ethnologue itself, which gives population
>figures of languages all over. Unfortunately, the Ethnologue posted
>now on the Internet is the 13th edition, of 1996. The new 14th edition
>of 2000 should be posted in about a month. But even the "old" one is
>full of useful information. Find it on the internet at
>http://www.sil.org/ethnologue/.
>
>Papua New Guinea and Brazil are countries which have lots of languages
>in the hundreds.
>
>Mike Cahill
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