Markus Scherer wrote:
> > than Italian's 37 million
> (http://www.sil.org/ethnologue/top100.html).
>
> Italy has about 60 million people. Do you not count at least
> most of them as speakers of "Italian", plus some in Switzerland etc.?
Shhhhht! Don't you wake old flames!
That's The Ethnologue's rule: one man, one language.
If I am already counted as a speaker of Lombard, how can I be counted also
as a speaker of Italian?
Ciao.
_ Marco ;-)
Ooops! No, sorry, I meant:
Sciau.
_ Marc ;-)
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