jacquesdehe | Re: Ordina Internasional
Alo Antonio e tota,
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Dear Antonio, your statistics are old.
All the press saluted recently the 1,300,000,000
Chineses in just the communist China.
There are also Chineses in Taïwan and everywhere in the world.
The Chinese diaspora is omnipresent in the restaurants,
trade, arts and crafts, etc . . . in all world nations.
It's much easier to find anywhere a speaker of Chinese
than a speaker of esperanto or a speaker of any other conlang.
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Lingua Franca Nova is not mine of course, nor just European.
Spanish and Portuguese are very, very important and valuable
languages in the whole world and I love them.
But I personally follow the special opportunity given
by the European Union to our auxiliary language aspiration.
In my opinion a world auxiliary planified language,
if made-to-measure, that's to say an euroclone mostly Roman,
has the best chance of taking off . . . in Europe
and then of expanding everywhere.
I am trying to be pragmatic, opportunistic, . . . not chauvinistic.
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Very, very warm-heartedly,
Jacques
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--- In LinguaFrancaNova@...m, "Antonio Carlos R. da
Fonseca" <acrfonseca@i...> wrote:
> Alo tota,
> ...
> > "numbers = millions of native speakers in the European Union"
> > for example "[de 92]: allemand",
> ...
>
> Si la intende de LFN es sola la UE, donce esa "corpus" es bon.
> Si la intende de LFN es la mundo, la "corpus" ta es (asta 1999):
>
> Language Approx. number of speakers
> 01. Chinese (Mandarin) 1.075.000.000
> 02. English 514.000.000
> 03. Hindustani 496.000.000
> 04. Spanish 425.000.000
> 05. Russian 275.000.000
> 06. Arabic 256.000.000
> 07. Bengali 215.000.000
> 08. Portuguese 194.000.000 (215.000.000 per 2004)
> 09. Malay-Indonesian 176.000.000
> 10. French 129.000.000
> Source: Ethnologue, 13th Edition, and other sources.
> Up to 1999
>
> Si la intende de LFN es la uest, la "corpus" ta es (asta 1999):
> Language Approx. number of speakers
> 01. English 514.000.000
> 02. Spanish 425.000.000
> 03. Russian 275.000.000
> 04. Arabic 256.000.000
> 05. Portuguese 194.000.000 (215.000.000 per 2004)
> 06. French 129.000.000
> Source: Ethnologue, 13th Edition, and other sources.
> Up to 1999
>
> Per esample:
> En America Latina, de Mexico asta Patagonia, esclui Suriname e
> Guianas, plu Iberia, ja ave un lingua franca, la portuniol. No un
> latin american nesesa plu ce du oras per comensa a parlar e
comprender el.
>
> Salute
> Antonio