The 18 Million figure for Pashto Speakers is wrong.
The actual Estimate is more then 45 millions, I do not know who
are making the wrong calculations. I Sugget amendment to this
records.
Liwal
----- Original Message -----
From: <Marco.Cimarosti@icl.com>
To: <liwal@liwal.net>
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2000 2:48 PM
Subject: RE: Unicode top 100 (was RE: Unicode 3.0 press statements)
> Millions speakers, according to The Ethnologue.
> Notice that "Spanish" probably means just Castillian, not all the other
> languages spoken in Spain.
>
> _ Marco
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: N.R.Liwal [SMTP:liwal@liwal.net]
> > Dear Marco;
> >
> > Is the number 332 (332 SPANISH) is a rank or just a serial number?
> >
> > Liwal
> >
> > > *** Arabic alphabet
> > > 175 ARABIC (all dialects)
> > > 58 URDU
> > > 31 FARSI
> > > 30 WESTERN PANJABI
> > > 20 SINDHI
> > > 18 PASHTO
> > >
> > > *** Thaana alphabet
> > > (MALDIVIAN)
> > >
> > > *** Devanagari alphabet
> > > 182 HINDI
> > > 65 MARATHI
> > > 16 NEPALI
> > >
> > > *** Bengali alphabet
> > > 189 BENGALI
> > > 14 ASSAMESE
> > >
> > > *** Gujarati alphabet
> > > 44 GUJARATI
> > >
> > > *** Gurmukhi alphabet
> > > 26 EASTERN PANJABI
> > >
> > > *** Oriya alphabet
> > > 31 ORIYA
> > >
> > > *** Tamil alphabet
> > > 63 TAMIL
> > >
> > > *** Telugu alphabet
> > > 66 TELUGU
> > >
> > > *** Kannada alphabet
> > > 34 KANNADA
> > >
> > > *** Malayalam alphabet
> > > 34 MALAYALAM
> > >
> > > *** Sinhala alphabet
> > > 13 SINHALA
> > >
> > > *** Thai alphabet
> > > 35 THAI
> > >
> > > *** Lao alphabet
> > > (LAO)
> > >
> > > *** Myanmar alphabet
> > > 22 BURMESE
> > >
> > > *** Georgian alphabet
> > > (GEORGIAN)
> > >
> > > *** Hangul script
> > > 75 KOREAN (also uses CJK ideographs, a.k.a. hanja)
> > >
> > > *** Ethiopic script
> > > 17 AMHARIC
> > > 9 OROMO
> > >
> > > *** Cherokee script
> > > (CHEROKEE)
> > >
> > > *** Canadian syllabic script
> > > (INUIT)
> > >
> > > *** Khmer alphabet
> > > 7 KHMER
> > >
> > > *** Mongolian alphabet
> > > (MONGOLIAN)
> > >
> > > *** Braille patterns
> > > (many languages worldwide)
> > >
> > > *** Kana script
> > > 125 JAPANESE (also uses CJK ideographs, a.k.a. kanji)
> > >
> > > *** CJK ideographs (a.k.a. hanzi, kanji, hanja)
> > > 885 MANDARIN CHINESE
> > > 66 YUE CHINESE
> > > 282 (other Chinese dialects)
> > >
> > > *** Yi script
> > > (YI)
> > >
> > > *** Unknown (unwritten?)
> > > 25 BHOJPURI
> > > 24 MAITHILI
> > > 21 AWADHI
> > > 15 SARAIKI
> > > 15 CEBUANO
> > > 14 CHITTAGONIAN
> > > 14 MADURA
> > > 13 HARYANVI
> > > 12 MARWARI
> > > 12 MAGAHI
> > > 11 CHHATTISGARHI
> > > 10 DECCAN
> > > 8 ILOCANO
> > > 7 SHONA
> > > 7 KURMANJI
> > > 7 HILIGAYNON
> > > 7 AKAN
> > >
> > > THE END
> > >
> > > Ciao.
> > > Marco
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
>
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