[Foundation-l] 1.3 billion of humans don't have Wikipedia in their native language

Milos Rancic millosh at gmail.com
Mon May 23 15:56:09 UTC 2011


More data. This is about all living languages, just to get a clue about
what is reasonable to do and what is not.

Number of languages and number of speakers for languages categorized by
number of speakers (you can get more nice wikitable at [1]):

category: number of languages, total number of speakers
100M+: 17, 2514548848
10M-99M: 78, 2376900757
1M-9M: 303, 950166458
100k-999k: 900, 284119716
10k-99k: 1837, 61223297
1k-9k: 2025, 7823891
100-999: 1039, 460911
10-99: 343, 12664
1-9: 134, 528
all: 6677, 6195257070

[1]
http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Missing_Wikipedias/Languages_and_numbers



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