On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 04:27, Amir E. Aharoni
<amir.aharoni(a)mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
2011/7/11 Thomas Goldammer
<thogol(a)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.
--
Mark Wagner