More people speak Malay than Hindi?

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VYAKARAN: South Asian Languages and Linguistics Net
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Are these messages reaching the people who initiated this conference
which claimed Malay to be the 4th largest spoken language of the world.
Is there anybody on Vyakaran from that group as well.

Surya

Greg Cooper wrote:

> VYAKARAN: South Asian Languages and Linguistics Net
> Editors:  Tej K. Bhatia, Syracuse University, New York
>           John Peterson, University of Osnabrueck, Germany
> Details:  Send email to listserv at listserv.syr.edu and say: INFO VYAKARAN
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> By saying that Chinese is the most widely spoken language in the world we mean just Mandarin Chinese. There are more than 200 other indigenous languages in China, most of them having several dialects.
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