[Foundation-l] Edits by project and country of origin

[Ray Saintonge]

daniwo59 at aol.com wrote:

>What I find especially interesting is not the native Asutralian languages,  
>which have a handful of speakers only, but the fact that in India, over 99  
>percent of people prefer to edit in English than in their native languages. It  
>would be interesting to see the results once native languages are included in  
>the sample. 
>
I agree.  The Indian situation is far more significant than the 
Australian one.  It is understandable that there would be very little 
participation from speakers of Australian Aboriginal languages because 
each has such a tiny speaker base.  It is less understandable that 
Indian languages with a million or more speakers have had so little 
development.

When a person from India looking at Australian edits in other languages 
than English presumes that we are talking about other European languages 
this suggests that the influence of the Raj is still alive and well, and 
that the educated people of India have bought into the idea that their 
own native languages are somehow inferior.

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