Re: Suggestion

[Noah Levitt <nlevitt columbia edu>]

On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 16:30:28 +0200, Danilo Segan wrote:
> 
> If noone objects, I may add this to the list of supported languages in  
> release notes in the form of:
>  American English (1 speaker, noone understands it)
>  Azerbaijani
>  Belarusian (7 million)
>  ...

In case you were planning to put this verbatim into the
release notes, "no one" is two words.

> 
> It's be nice if someone could separate numbers for Portuguese and  
> Brazilian Portuguese, as well as for Chinese Traditional and Chinese  
> Simplified.

According to http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=POR,
there are 158 million Portuguese speakers in Brazil, and 10
million in Portugal, plus a few more elsewhere.

The thing about Chinese is that many different languages are
written more or less exactly the same way (Mandarin and
Cantonese for example), so you have to add up the native
speakers of all those languages. My guess is that the
population of China, rounded down to the nearest hundred
million ;-), is a good enough estimate for Simplified, and
the population of Taiwan is good enough for Traditional,
respectively 1.2 billion and 22.6 million.

Noah