[AGL] World's most widely spoken languages - HEY!

[Wayne Johnson]

Simple, Byron, people who make such lists don't count Indonesia.

d'oh!

wgJ
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>> The Summer Institute for Linguistics (SIL) Ethnologue Survey (1999) lists
>> the following as the top languages by population:
>> (number of native speakers in parentheses)
>>
>> 1. Chinese* (937,132,000)
>> 2. Spanish (332,000,000)
>> 3. English (322,000,000)
>> 4. Bengali (189,000,000)
>> 5. Hindi/Urdu (182,000,000)
>> 6. Arabic* (174,950,000)
>> 7. Portuguese (170,000,000)
>> 8. Russian (170,000,000)
>> 9. Japanese (125,000,000)
>> 10. German (98,000,000)
>> 11. French* (79,572,000)
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> There's got to be a reason why Indonesia, with the world's fifth-largest
> population (around 230 million), a place where 90% of the populace speak
> Bahasa Indonesia, the official language, is not on the list. I don't get
> it.
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