R: Re: Ethnologue.

B. Garcia wrote:

> CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
> >Glancing over all these ethnologue entries, I notice that most people's
> >languages have over 100,000 speakers.  Some have millions of speakers.  I
> >know that Tokana and Tepa have (or had) fewer than 30,000 speakers apiece
> >(in the case of Tepa probably far fewer).  Are there any other conlangs
on
> >the list with very small (fictional) speaker bases?
>
> Well, i put 70,000 as my number mostly to have a number. I'm not quite
> sure if an island the size of the main island can support the majority of
> the 70,000 speakers (it's about 200 miles long and probably 100 wide).
> Anyone have an Idea how to figure out a realiztic number of people on an
> island the size of the main island? (the smaller islands are under 30
> miles long)
> >
Why not taking a look at real world? Choose the island (Philippines?),
calculate the inhabitants per km2, the size of your island and match the
results together. That's what I did.

Luca