On Jan 23, 2008 12:54 PM, Charles Haynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > and has fewer linguistic divisions than india > > Europe has 23 official languages: Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, > English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, > Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, > Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish. India has 22: Assamese, Bengali, > Bodo, English, French, Garo, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada , Khasi, > Kokborok, Konkani, Malayalam, Marathi, Meitei, Mizo, Nepali, Oriya, > Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu. I'd call that a tie, really.
Just nitpicking, but if one were to use "living languages" rather than "official languages" as a criterion then the picture looks slightly different: http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=IN vs. http://www.argador.info/skope/tero/Regioi/Europa/kultur/scpraaxoi/index.html http://www.ethnologue.com/country_index.asp?place=Europe > Not drawing any conclusions, just trying to inject some facts. Yup. Udhay -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))
