On Monday 12 February 2007 23:51, Chris Nicolson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Scottish Gaelic Total speakers: 58,652 > Welsh Total speakers: 700,000 > > From their respective wikipedia pages. So we're doing well for the > relative number of speakers!
That makes matters even worse! Welsh is spoken by 2,903,085/700,000 one in four+of the population of Wales, Gaelic by 5,062,011/58,652 one in 86 > 87 of the population of Scotland, even if one discounts the proportion of Scotland where Gaelic was not spoken, then the sum of money per head being spent to preserve a European language/culture, (which was what I understood the EU to be seeking to do), should at least be greater for Scotland. I wonder how much Cornish language promotion gets? (Rhetorical question, pleas don't find out for me). -- J.R. Seago GNU/Linux Registered User No. #219566 http://counter.li.org/ () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments _______________________________________________ Scottish mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
