Re: Ethnologue.

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)
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