Re: Archiving language information (was Re: Saving endangered langs (was Re: Extrapolating languages))

Tim May scripsit:

>  > deeply carved with warnings in six popular languages (ISTR English,
>  > Russian, Spanish, Hindi, Chinese and Arabic)?
>
> Yes (or at least, you could very well have read of such a thing.  I
> don't possess detailed dossiers on your daily activities over the past
> several years.)  It's more likely that the languages in question were
> as above but with French rather than Russian, as these would then be
> the official languages of the UN,
The above six languages are the numerically greatest, however, in the
order Chinese, English, Hindi, Spanish, Russian, Arabic.

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