Multilingualism in the world

[Francis Hult]

One source you might find useful is the 2001 Eurobarometer report (Europeans and Languages):
http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/archives/ebs/ebs_147_en.pdf
 
Ethnologue is a good source for statistics about (and visuals of) territorial multilingualism.  The MLA Language Map (based on the 2000 census) is a nice visual for the US:
http://www.mla.org/census_main
 
FMH
 
 
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Francis M. Hult, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Bicultural-Bilingual Studies
University of Texas at San Antonio
 
Web: http://faculty.coehd.utsa.edu/fhult/
 

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Dear List members,

Are there any statistics, or some raw numbers, to show that the world is (people in it are) indeed more multilingual than monolingual?  I am quite aware of the definitional isues surrounding the terms mono-/multi-lingualism, but I need a non-nuanced answer/data to fully answer a question raised by one of my freshman undergrad student in my language in globalization class.

Many thanks,
Rakesh
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