in reply to Re: The native languages of Monastery users
in thread The native languages of Monastery users

Sure. If someone follows the procedure and does the work to come up with a suitably complete list of languages, order to put them in etc. and submits it.

                - tye
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Re: Re^2: The native languages of Monastery users (hoops)
by greenFox (Vicar) on Jul 16, 2003 at 05:58 UTC

    Could be a large poll, this site, lists 6,800 "main" languages! <grin> And this site lists over 200 languages with > 1 million speakers.

    Here are a couple of possibles using data (and order) from here

    Top 12 languages-

    • English
    • German
    • Spanish
    • Portugese
    • French
    • Russian
    • Hindi/Urdu
    • Bengali
    • Arabic
    • Japanese
    • Mandarin
    • Indonesian (Malay)
    • Other
    • I only speak Perl
    • I don't speak you insensitive clod!

    Language groups-

    • Indo-European
    • Dravidian
    • Afro-Asiatic
    • Caucasian
    • Nilo-Saharan
    • Niger-Congo
    • Uralic
    • Altaic
    • Korean
    • Japanese
    • Miao-Yao
    • Tai
    • Austro-Asiatic
    • Sino-Tibetan
    • Austronesian
    • Aztec-Tanoan
    • Penutian
    • Andean
    • Equatorial
    • Pidgins and Creoles
    • Other
    • pod
    • Language agnostic $@#! words

    --
    Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought. -Basho

      You left out a few languages mentioned in this very thread and a few other that I know for sure are represented in the Monastery:

      (In no particular order)

      • Italian
      • Dutch
      • Flemish
      • Estonian
      • Lithuanian
      • Finnish
      • Danish
      • Norwegian
      • Swedish
      • Serbo-Croatian
      • Albanian
      • Greek
      • Korean
      • Hungarian
      • Rumenian
      • Czech
      • Polish
      • Bulgarian

      The number of total speakers is not really important.

Re^3: The native languages of Monastery users (hoops)
by bart (Canon) on Jul 16, 2003 at 09:06 UTC
    That's what this thread is good for: collecting a preliminary list of languages.

      Yes, I know. So, when you are done collecting, submit the finished product.

                      - tye