Re: Ethnologue

En réponse à Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...>:

>
> Yes, odd indeed! Weird choice of languages. Well, since they have
> started with
> Esperanto, Interlingua and Europanto, other IALs will follow quickly
> (Ido,
> Glossa, Maggel)...
>
Maggel?! They will really need humour for this one ;)) .

>
> Well, they had to place it somewhere, hadn't they? It would have been at
> least
> strange it they had written "Kiribati".
Couldn't they simply have a "World" place?

> Where are those languages most popular?
Currently it grows mostly in Asian countries, especially South Korea.

 AFAIK Esperanto would score well
> in
> Eastern Europe, especially in the Baltic states.
>
Indeed, it's one of the places it's strongest. But still currently it's in Asia
that it's the strongest (strangely enough...).

>
> Well, I have worked in those buildings myself, but never ever seen the
> slightest trace of Euro-Creolization.
Well, I said, he *claimed* it. I never said it actually happened ;)) .

 The thing is, EVERYBODY working
> within
> the European institutions knows French. It's the language of
> communication
> there, and it helps that Brussels, Luxemburg, and Strasbourg are all
> located on
> francophone territory. Of course, when you sit with a group of Dutch,
> Danish,
> German, and Finnish colleagues, you might choose English or German, but
> the
> norm is still French, and you just can't get away without it.
>
Nice. It's nice to see that English has still not taken everything over...

>
> Yeah, but it's a pity there are no demographics for Interlingua.
>
Maybe because they couldn't find any speaker of it! ;)))

>
> Jan (fighting for recognition of Nederjans) ;)
>
LOL. What will be next? Czhangonese? Teokkien? ;))))

Christophe.

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