There is no specific number.
Of all the officially-recognised minority nationalities, there are large ones (over 6 million), and there are small ones (under 1000).
Mark
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 03:17:48 +0000, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason avarab@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 12:43:11 -0700, Mark Williamson node.ue@gmail.com wrote:
I think that, as long as you are careful to say "even available in minority languages" rather than "there are also versions in the other major languages of China" (which they really are - all of the languages I mentioned have over 1m speakers in China), and as long as you don't mention Tibetan by itself.
If I recall correctly the official definition of a "minority" anything in China is ~4-6 million, calling 1 million of anything over there might in their eyes be plain factually wrong.
On a side note, I forgot to include Mongolian.
Mark
On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 13:00:14 -0500, Delirium delirium@hackish.org wrote:
Mark Williamson wrote:
Some people may not think it is notable, but to give a local example drives home that Wikipedia is very diverse. If you are presenting in China, please don't forget to mention that we have places for people to build Wikipedias in Yi, Zhuang, Tibetan, Uyghur, and many other languages.
I don't disagree with this, but it's probably worth noting that languages are intimately connected to culture, nationalism, and politics, so when to mention what can sometimes be a sensitive issue. In China, in particular, promoting of regional languages is often connected to promoting regional political independence (i.e. secession from China, or at least increased autonomy), so needs to be done somewhat carefully so we don't become seen as a meddling US-based political organization that's trying to break apart China or something like that.
-Mark
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