Re: Suggestion

["Duarte Loreto" <happyguy_pt hotmail com>]

   Hello!

Here goes some data and corrections to the Imprimatur site previously 
given...

Portugal has a 10 million population
Brazil has a 176 million population

This alone is more than the 182 million listed on the Imprimatur site.

pt_BR is Portuguese localized for Brazil. So pt_BR can be closed (I think) 
with the 176 million mark.

As for Portuguese pt (as we are not talking about pure pt_PT), besides 
Portugal, there are the former Portuguese colonies (now independant African 
countries, or Macau as part of China). These represent:
* Angola = 12,5 million
* Mozambique = 19 million
* Cape Verde (Republic of) = 401 thous
* Guinea Bissau = 1,2 million
* Sao Tome & Principe = 175 thous
* Macao = 400 thou

This piles up to a total of (including Portugal itself and not counting the 
Brazilian population) about 43,68 million.

As for other stuff listed on the Imprimatur page...
Azores (Portugal) is part of Portugal and counts towards the 10million mark. 
Macau is no longer Portuguese as it was returned to China in 2001. I think 
that the official language was changed to be Chinese, so the correct pt 
count should not contain the 0,4 million for Macao.

The site also lists Canada and United States of America due to the large 
portuguese imigrant communities there. We also have large communities in 
France (biggest imigrant community on the country, said to be more than 3 
million), Germany, Switzerland, Venezuela, South Africa, etc. I can't give 
you countings on these communities.

Hope this helps :) Have fun!

Duarte "HappyGuy" Loreto

"Don't worry, be happy!"

>Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 16:30:28 +0200
>From: Danilo Segan <dsegan@gmx.net>
>To: Christian Rose <menthos@gnome.org>
>Cc: GNOME Release Team <release-team@gnome.org>,
>	GNOME I18N List <gnome-i18n@gnome.org>,
>	Telsa Gwynne <hobbit@aloss.ukuu.org.uk>
>Subject: Re: Suggestion
>
>петак, 05. септембар 2003. 14:08:16 CEST — Christian Rose 
>написа:
> > mån 2003-09-01 klockan 17.13 skrev Telsa Gwynne:
> > > If we are listing the translations in the release notes, it might
> > > be nice to include a mention of how many people speak (or read?)
> > > each language?
> >
> > There's a listing of languages, where they're spoken and the number
> > of speakers at
> > http://www.imprimatur.co.uk/library/language_directory/a_z/.
> >
>
>Okay, I extracted all the numbers for the "supported" languages, and
>here it goes:
>
>az:Azerbaijani:
>be:Belarusian:7 million
>ca:Catalan:6 million
>cs:Czech:11 million
>cy:Welsh:575,000 (according to Telsa)
>da:Danish:Over 5 million
>de:German:100 million
>el:Greek (Modern):10 million
>es:Spanish:Over 350 million
>fi:Finnish:Over 5 million
>fr:French:75 million
>it:Italian:60 million
>ja:Japanese:Over 125 million
>ko:Korean:75 million
>ms:Malay:Over 17 million
>nl:Dutch:Over 21 million
>pl:Polish:44 million
>pt:Portuguese:182 million
>pt_BR:Portuguese:182 million
>sl:Slovenian:
>sr:Serbian:8 million
>sv:Swedish:9 million
>zh_CN:Chinese Simplified:Over 1.1 billion
>zh_TW:Chinese Traditional:Over 1.1 billion
>
>Anyone is welcome to post corrections for anything you're familiar
>with.
>
>Also, Slovenian and Azerbaijani are missing from the list, as well as
>American English. If anyone is aware of the figures for those (I guess
>Slovenian has something like 2-3 millions speakers, but I may easily be
>wrong).
>
>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)
>   ...
>
>It's be nice if someone could separate numbers for Portuguese and
>Brazilian Portuguese, as well as for Chinese Traditional and Chinese
>Simplified.
>
>Cheers,
>Danilo

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