Re: OT: passport languages
| From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, August 31, 2003, 5:03 |
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Andreas Johansson scripsit:
> "Why not? But tell me one thing: how many English-speaking people are there
> for each Dutch-speaking in the US?"
Just about a thousand to one: there are about 215 million who speak only
English, and about 215 thousand who speak a West Germanic language other
than English, German, and Yiddish. Frisian speakers are probably
negligible, though Low German may bias the results somewhat.
--
John Cowan jcowan@reutershealth.com www.reutershealth.com www.ccil.org/~cowan
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