Re: Mixed writing systems (WAS: Newbie says hi)
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
| Date: | Wednesday, November 6, 2002, 15:57 |
Andreas Johansson scripsit:
> Me neither, but it does seem somewhat weird for languages with millions of
> speakers in a writing society to lack a written form.
I don't have direct evidence, but I'm willing to be that Cantonese is the
most widely spoken (both in numbers and geography) language that has no
official support of any kind. There are probably Cantonese-speakers
in every city of significant size on Earth.
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