On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 14:57, emijrp <[email protected]> wrote: > 2011/7/11 Milos Rancic <[email protected]> >> Note that estimates from the past (and likely from the present) count >> that no language with less than 1M of speakers would survive 2050. > > If Wikimedia projects and WMF leave to die 90% (or 80%, or 70%, or 60%) of > current languages in the next 40 years (we will be alive to see it, > probably), then both are failures.
I think (but I am not sure) that I posted this link [1] here a couple of weeks ago. Speaking just about languages, the situation is approximately the next: speakers total speakers number of languages 100M+ 2,514,548,848 9 10M-100M 2,376,900,757 78 1M-10M 950,166,458 303 100k-1M 284,119,716 900 10k-100k 61,223,297 1837 1k-10k 7,823,891 2025 100-999 460,911 1039 10-999 12,664 343 1-9 528 134 sum 6,195,257,070 6,668 So, number of languages with less than 10k is approximately 45%, but it is around 8M of people in total or 0,0015 of world population. It is highly likely that that number of languages won't exist in ~100 years. (Some of those below 10k will survive, but some of those above 10k won't.) To make those languages viable enough to survive -- much more work than just our is needed. I am sure that 10% of military budgets of the world countries for one year would preserve all languages, but that's the other issue. Basically, that's not our failure as Wikimedians, but failure of our civilization. [1] https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=tCwO11tFPLPB-SJafDesypg&authkey=CPCE5pMB#gid=1 _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
