-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 21 March 2004 08:27, Musab Al-Rawi wrote: > From: Arafat Medini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >Salam, > > > >for gome 2.6 release I was asked to say how many ppl speak the arabic > >language, so minorites aside, how many arabic do exist ? > >Any help pls? > > > >yours > >Arafat > > poeple who live in middle east (speak arabic by default) are more than one > billion, > add to that islamic countries such as pakistan, india, indonisia etc who > need to learn arabic in order to pray and worship God as muslims. > of course people of the second group most of them don't speak arabic > fluently and some they dont even speak arabic at all.... BUT u can say that > there are more than billion people who speak > arabic and u noone can say that u r wrong :)
I do, sorry ;-) Arafat, I think you'll need to find the statistics of each of the countries that have Arabic as an official language (Arab League, not only middle east ;-) and do the sum. There will be around a few hundred millions (but I'm sure it's less than 1 billion). You'll find that Arabic is one of the five/six most spoken languages in the world. Well, if you add people that may need Arabic without really speaking it, I agree that the number may grow to 1 billion. But we're talking about speakers only. Salam, - -- Youcef R. Rahal Arabeyes.org http://www.arabeyes.org/~rahal -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAXUvLHDRR6Cd0eSYRAhOQAJ4tRN9ZcE3leK6ZFlJKB1l4b2eGwQCeP+66 sXXpMb19myAUtSnNG7dHLZw= =UUZM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ General mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/general
