On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Milos Rancic <millosh(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Those are preliminary results. We have two chapters
(and strategic
focus) in countries of the list above. Inside of the longer list, which
should be verified, we have more chapters. I noted that there are even
two languages of Germany without Wikipedia, but with more than million
of speakers: Mainfränkisch and Upper Saxon (the later one without test
Wikipedia).
I think that also shows that this is quite relative. People who speak
Mainfränkisch or Upper Saxon, will use German in more formal
situations; in particular, the great majority will read and write
German more and better than their regional language, even when they
are using the second when talking with their family members or
neighbours. This may well be the case in some of the cases you give
too. Which does not mean we should not include those languages, but it
does mean that it does not have the high priority that "a multi
million language that we do not have" seems to entail.
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André Engels, andreengels(a)gmail.com