Re: The native languages of Monastery users

[bart]

Dutch.

Could we make this a poll?

[tye]

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

[greenFox]

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

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

[Anonymous Monk]

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.

[bart]

That's what this thread is good for: collecting a preliminary list of languages.

[tye]

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

                - tye