Re: [silk] The US of A is officially paranoid.

[Charles Haynes]

oops. Must have had a bug, this time I got 428.

On Jan 23, 2008 3:41 PM, Charles Haynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Jan 23, 2008 3:16 PM, Udhay Shankar N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Charles Haynes wrote:
> >
> > >> http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=IN
> > >
> > > 178 languages
> >
> > How did you get that? Quoting from the page above,
> >
> > <q>
> > The number of languages listed for India is 428. Of those, 415 are
> > living languages and 13 are extinct.
> > </q>
>
> I wrote a script to count them from the listing. "Trust, but verify." :)
>
> > >> http://www.argador.info/skope/tero/Regioi/Europa/kultur/scpraaxoi/index.html
> > >> http://www.ethnologue.com/country_index.asp?place=Europe
>
> > > 204 languages
>
> This script was a little trickier.
>
> Maybe I had a bug in my script - please feel free to check my work. :)
>
> -- Charles
>