Re: World Language Losses at a Glance

From: Chris Taylor (Christopher.Taylor@man.ac.uk)
Date: Fri Jun 22 2001 - 12:16:24 BST

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    No way does German come above French in a usage list! What about half of
    Africa, SE Asia, the Carribean, part of Canada etc. Who speaks German
    but Germans? Surely it's English->Spanish->French->others (considering
    those of purely European origin).

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