[LINK] Arabic and the net

[Jan Whitaker]

At 09:45 AM 15/12/2009, Roger Clarke wrote:

>[I failed to quickly find a table of languages showing estimated
>numbers of first-language speakers, largest first.]

Believe it or not, this topic was on The Rich List on Sunday.

Mandarin is first. Cantonese is high. English is way high as is 
Spanish. Surprisingly, Portuguese is 3rd. Hindi I think was 6th. 
Interestingly, the contestants said Indonesian and it wasn't on the 
list because the real language is Javanese.

Jan



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