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

From: N.R.Liwal (liwal@liwal.net)
Date: Wed Jan 26 2000 - 11:06:21 EST


----- Original Message -----
From: Roozbeh Pournader <roozbeh@sina.sharif.ac.ir>
> On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, N.R.Liwal wrote:
>
> > The 18 Million figure for Pashto Speakers is wrong.
> > The actual Estimate is more then 45 millions, I do not know who
> > are making the wrong calculations. I Sugget amendment to this
> > records.
>
> It's not Pashto speakers, but those whose first tounge in Pashto. The same
> is true for English, take a look at the info. Also, the data is at least
> ten years old.
>
> --roozbeh

Even in that case 18 million is even less then 50%.

Liwal



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