Trey Jones, 26/08/19 16:28:
From Ethnologue https://www.ethnologue.com/enterprise-faq/how-many-languages-world-are-unwritten-0:
The exact number of unwritten languages is hard to determine. Ethnologue (21st edition) has data to indicate that of the currently listed 7,111 living languages, 3,995 have a developed writing system. We don't always know, however, if the existing writing systems are widely used.
Indeed, so my question is really whether whoever proposes this focus on languages without an established writing system 1) agrees with the figures above, 2) (if yes) thinks we should prioritise those 3k or so languages over the other 4k or so languages, of which we "only" have about 400 in MediaWiki.
Federico