On Fri, 25 May 2001, Markus Scherer wrote:
> Thomas Chan wrote:
> > than Italian's 37 million (http://www.sil.org/ethnologue/top100.html).
>
> Italy has about 60 million people. Do you not count at least most of
> them as speakers of "Italian", plus some in Switzerland etc.?
I'm just quoting the SIL figure (for comparative purposes to Hakka). If
you dispute it, take it up with them, not me.
Thomas Chan
tc31@cornell.edu
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