Re: Unicode top 100 (was RE: Unicode 3.0 press statements)

From: N.R.Liwal (liwal@liwal.net)
Date: Sun Jan 23 2000 - 12:53:53 EST


Dear Marco;

Is the number 332 (332 SPANISH) is a rank or just a serial number?

Liwal

----- Original Message ----- >
> "Unicode supports the top 100 languages. Unicode also supports all the
> official languages used in the EU and many other languages, some of which
> require unique writing systems."
>
>
> *** Latinate alphabet
> 332 SPANISH
> 322 ENGLISH
> 170 PORTUGUESE
> 98 GERMAN
> 76 JAVANESE
> 72 FRENCH
> 68 VIETNAMESE
> 59 TURKISH
> 46 ITALIAN
> 44 POLISH
> 31 AZERBAIJANI
> 27 SUNDA
> 26 ROMANIAN
> 24 HAUSA
> 20 DUTCH
> 20 YORUBA
> 18 MALAY (also written in Arabic)
> 17 INDONESIAN
> 17 IGBO
> 17 TAGALOG
> 15 HUNGARIAN
> 12 CZECH
> 11 CROATIAN
> 9 MALAGASY
> 9 RWANDA
> 9 SOMALI
> 9 ZULU
> 9 SWEDISH
> 8 NIGERIAN FULFULDE
> 7 HAITIAN CREOLE FRENCH
> (all other official languages in the EU)
>
> *** Greek alphabet
> 12 GREEK
>
> *** Cyrillic alphabet
> 170 RUSSIAN
> 41 UKRAINIAN
> 18 NORTHERN UZBEK
> 10 BELARUSAN
> 10 SERBIAN (also written in Latinate)
> 9 BULGARIAN
> 8 TATAR
> 8 KAZAKH
> 7 UYGHUR
>
> *** Armenian alphabet
> (ARMENIAN)
>
> *** Hebrew alphabet
> (HEBREW)
> (YIDDISH)
>
> *** Arabic alphabet
> 175 ARABIC (all dialects)
> 58 URDU
> 31 FARSI
> 30 WESTERN PANJABI
> 20 SINDHI
> 18 PASHTO
>
> *** Thaana alphabet
> (MALDIVIAN)
>
> *** Devanagari alphabet
> 182 HINDI
> 65 MARATHI
> 16 NEPALI
>
> *** Bengali alphabet
> 189 BENGALI
> 14 ASSAMESE
>
> *** Gujarati alphabet
> 44 GUJARATI
>
> *** Gurmukhi alphabet
> 26 EASTERN PANJABI
>
> *** Oriya alphabet
> 31 ORIYA
>
> *** Tamil alphabet
> 63 TAMIL
>
> *** Telugu alphabet
> 66 TELUGU
>
> *** Kannada alphabet
> 34 KANNADA
>
> *** Malayalam alphabet
> 34 MALAYALAM
>
> *** Sinhala alphabet
> 13 SINHALA
>
> *** Thai alphabet
> 35 THAI
>
> *** Lao alphabet
> (LAO)
>
> *** Myanmar alphabet
> 22 BURMESE
>
> *** Georgian alphabet
> (GEORGIAN)
>
> *** Hangul script
> 75 KOREAN (also uses CJK ideographs, a.k.a. hanja)
>
> *** Ethiopic script
> 17 AMHARIC
> 9 OROMO
>
> *** Cherokee script
> (CHEROKEE)
>
> *** Canadian syllabic script
> (INUIT)
>
> *** Khmer alphabet
> 7 KHMER
>
> *** Mongolian alphabet
> (MONGOLIAN)
>
> *** Braille patterns
> (many languages worldwide)
>
> *** Kana script
> 125 JAPANESE (also uses CJK ideographs, a.k.a. kanji)
>
> *** CJK ideographs (a.k.a. hanzi, kanji, hanja)
> 885 MANDARIN CHINESE
> 66 YUE CHINESE
> 282 (other Chinese dialects)
>
> *** Yi script
> (YI)
>
> *** Unknown (unwritten?)
> 25 BHOJPURI
> 24 MAITHILI
> 21 AWADHI
> 15 SARAIKI
> 15 CEBUANO
> 14 CHITTAGONIAN
> 14 MADURA
> 13 HARYANVI
> 12 MARWARI
> 12 MAGAHI
> 11 CHHATTISGARHI
> 10 DECCAN
> 8 ILOCANO
> 7 SHONA
> 7 KURMANJI
> 7 HILIGAYNON
> 7 AKAN
>
> THE END
>
> Ciao.
> Marco
>
>
>



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