I don't understand your comment. The source separated the two. I put them back together. Since you agree with me that Bavarian is a dialect, not a language, then my decision to combine Bavarian and German was not unnecessary.
I think what Tante means is that even mentioning Bavarian seems ridiculous, as no one considers it to be separate from German. (However, looking at the source, linguists seem to differ. That's news to me.)
I speak German, I live in Bavaria, and I totally agree with Tante. The Plattdeutsch dialect, on the other hand, which is spoken in the north of the country, lies much further away from German than Bavarian, and is very close to Danish. Even Germans have a hard time understanding it. If you want to include something, then the better candidates could be (Swiss German, Austrian German or Luxembourg German) - although also unnecessary in my humble opinion.
Then a percentage of every countries population should be subtracted from the native language numbers. e.g. Not everyone in India speaks Hindi in the Hindi areas or Urdu in the Urdu areas, or Gujarati in the Gujarati areas etc. etc...... you should only use populations for countries, not try and estimate how many are not native speakers with certain countries but not others.
Kurdish is missing on this list. According to the source Northern Kurdish has 14.6 million speakers. Wikipedia also states that Central Kurdish has 7.5 million speakers and Southern Kurdish has 3 million speakers. That amounts to more than 25 million speakers.
Heh. I get the logo, it was in the Bible that stated that they all spoke different languages after all that quarreling, since they didn't understand what they're saying.
Bavarian is not a language of its own, it's only a dialect. Either take em all (Frisian, Alemann, Cologne-ian, Rhine-ian, Saxonian etc pp) or leave em all...
Missed my own first language and the wife's as well. Just figured there weren't enough of either of us to make it on the list but now I feel quite dumb
Igbo, Sudanese, Uzbek and Amharic I refuse to believe are more spoken than Swahili. There are roughly 71-135 million Swahili speakers, it is approximately the 13th most spoken language in the world.
But most French speakers in African countries speak it as a second language, and not everyone in countries with French as an official language actually speaks French
As a Chinese, I'd say that Cantonese, Hakka and Wu can indeed be seen as languages for they have unique words, characters, grammers and sounds (what is Wu remains to be discussed), but Xiang, Jin, Min Nan and Gan are definitely dialects, for they just pronounce a little bit different from Mandarin, and they don't have unique grammers and characters. Name of these dialects are also typical Mandarin pinyin. Compared with them, Chuan (Sichuan) dialect and Shaanxi dielect are no less different from Mandarin.
Dam! I just can't spell Amharic! It's ok if you don't remember all the Chinese/Indian regional languages, but l just don't quite know how l remember Tagalog and Nigeria's big three tongues yet forgot Japanese, Javanese, Korean and Ukrainian... Pressure, pressure.
That's wrong population of the US is 320 million
Population of UK is 65 million
Population of Canada is 35 million
Population of Australia is 23 million
Population of New Zealand is 8 million
Population of Ireland is 5 million
Should be 456 million native English speakers
Some Kiwis speak maori
some Americans speak spanish
India: Yes
India is definitely leading
Just a little suggestion❤
gujurati is spoken in gujrat , India
bengali is spoken in West Bengal , India , so why to switch places with portugese
As, an Indian I should proudly call you as idiot who don't know anything as about language
I can speak 4 languages idiots