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Re: Koine (was: [T] -> [f] etc.)

From:Doug Dee <amateurlinguist@...>
Date:Thursday, October 9, 2003, 0:16
Please disregard my previous message (quoted below).
I misunderstood the statement I was trying to respond to.

Sorry.

In a message dated 10/8/2003 6:30:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
AmateurLinguist@AOL.COM writes:


>In a message dated 10/8/2003 1:37:56 PM Eastern Daylight Time, >ray.brown@FREEUK.COM writes:
>>In the modern world, English is the L1 of about a quarter of its >>population
>Isn't that an overestimate? The 2002 World Almanac (relying on SIL's >ethnologue) estimates 341 million L1 English speakers, out of a total world >population of about 6 billion. That's under 6%.