Re: Ethnologue.
| From: | Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, August 31, 2000, 17:24 |
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My problem is that i have no idea how many Rokbeigalmkidhm there are, so
i might have over-approximated. But it could be anywheres from a few
tens of thousands to a few hundreds of thousands.
-Stephen (Steg)
"what scares me / is that while you're telling me stories
you actually / believe that they are real" ~ _as is_, by Ani DiFranco
On Wed, 30 Aug 2000 21:18:07 -0700 J Matthew Pearson
<pearson@...> 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?
>
> Matt.
>
> Padraic Brown wrote:
>
> > Talarian [TAL] Approx. 200.000 to 500.000 speakers in Kingdom of
> > Illenere; perhaps 5.000 in Kingdom of Ylluria. 15% live in the
> capital
> > city (Illenere), while 85% live in rural clan holdings.