[Foundation-l] A simple question on languages.

Fri Jan 25 14:31:25 UTC 2008

On 25/01/2008, Mark Williamson <node.ue at gmail.com> wrote:
> 65,000 is indeed only slightly more doable. It's still totally
> ridiculous, though, considering I can go to the old stats from
> Ethnologue and figure out how many languages have over 65,000
> speakers. If I recall correctly the number for over 1 million speakers
> alone is 200, so I'm guessing it would be in the thousands.

You're looking at the wrong numbers - you want monolingual speakers,
not all speakers.