J.R. Seago wrote: > 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 don't understand this argument. A 1:4 Welsh:English speaking ratio surely deserves more attention than a 1:86 Scots Gaelic:English ratio? At a per-head rate, the WLB gets ~ £19, given the figures you and others have quoted (£13.7m/0.7m people). The GLB gets ~ £75 (4.409m/0.058m) per head! Where's the problem here? -- _ __/| William Anderson | Tim: Your cheese game is strong. \`O_o' neuro at well dot com | Zane: My cheese game. It's all about the =(_ _)= http://neuro.me.uk/ | cheese platter. U - Thhbt! GPG 0xFA5F1100 | -- Tim Westwood, Zane Lowe, R1, Dec 2005 _______________________________________________ Scottish mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
