Re: Unicode 3.0 press statements

From: John Cowan (jcowan@reutershealth.com)
Date: Wed Jan 19 2000 - 16:57:32 EST

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> Covers 95% of all world languages

Of course, we have to talk about languages that have written form.
Of the 6700+ languages in the Ethnologue (http://www.sil.org/ethnologue),
a large majority have never been written at all or have only
Bible translations.

I suspect that 100% of the top 100 languages by population that
have a written form can be written with Unicode. Here's a list,
with unwritten languages (mostly dialects of Italian, Arabic,
and Chinese) weeded out:

CHINESE
SPANISH
ENGLISH
BENGALI
HINDI
PORTUGUESE
RUSSIAN
JAPANESE
GERMAN, STANDARD
JAVANESE
KOREAN
FRENCH
VIETNAMESE
TELUGU
MARATHI
TAMIL
TURKISH
URDU
GUJARATI
POLISH
ARABIC
UKRAINIAN
ITALIAN
MALAYALAM
KANNADA
ORIYA
PANJABI, WESTERN
SUNDA (written? Indonesia)
PANJABI, EASTERN
ROMANIAN
BHOJPURI (written?)
AZERBAIJANI, SOUTH
FARSI, WESTERN
MAITHILI
HAUSA
BURMESE
SERBO-CROATIAN
AWADHI
THAI
DUTCH
YORUBA
SINDHI
UZBEK, NORTHERN
MALAY
AMHARIC
INDONESIAN
IGBO
TAGALOG
NEPALI
SARAIKI (written? Pakistan)
CEBUANO (written in Latin nowadays? Philippines)
THAI, NORTHEASTERN (written?)
ASSAMESE
HUNGARIAN
CHITTAGONIAN (written? Bangladesh)
SINHALA
HARYANVI (written? India)
MARWARI
CZECH
GREEK
MAGAHI (written? India)
CHHATTISGARHI
DECCAN (written?)
BELARUSAN
ZHUANG, NORTHERN
PASHTO, NORTHERN
SOMALI
MALAGASY
RWANDA
ZULU
BULGARIAN
SWEDISH
OROMO, WEST-CENTRAL (written? Ethiopia)
PASHTO, SOUTHERN
KAZAKH
ILOCANO
TATAR
FULFULDE, NIGERIAN (written?)
UYGHUR
HAITIAN CREOLE FRENCH
KHMER, CENTRAL
FARSI, EASTERN
AKAN (written? Ghana)
HILIGAYNON (written? Philippines)
KURMANJI (written?)
SHONA

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