On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 04:27, Amir E. Aharoni amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
2011/7/11 Thomas Goldammer thogol@googlemail.com
How many people don't understand any Wikipedia today?
Of those who can read at all, probably much less than 1%. The problem are those people who can't read.
For persons who can't read it's far better to learn reading first in their own language.
For many of these languages, teaching someone to read in their native language would first require inventing a written form for that language, and then creating a body of literature. Many languages have no literary tradition, and the only written material is linguistic studies by outsiders.