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Heta · Post by **Heta** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 5:11 am

[quote="Adianna"]They are in order of how many people speak them as their native or official second language. ]

why isnt swedish up there? should be nr1 imo!

Ankh Morpork · Post by **Ankh Morpork** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 5:26 am

Heta wrote:why isnt swedish up there? should be nr1 imo!

Nah, its more common with arabic/Yugoslavian in sweden than actual swedish

/Ankh

Heta · Post by **Heta** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 5:44 am

not in norrland

Most pwnage language is Älvdalska(small place in sweden), got a friend whos girlfriend who is from there. Is like 600 ppl in the world that speaks it fluently so funny to listen to when she talk since you have no fucking idea what shes going on about, she do speak regular swedish aswell. It was a dialect(not sure if this is the right term) at first but since it have so little common with actual swedish it got classed as a language of its own a while back.

Post by **Xest** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 9:02 am

Should all learn Welsh imo.

Trez · Post by **Trez** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 9:27 am

Lets all learn Esperanto, then nobody can claim we aint international.

clearbrook · Post by **clearbrook** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 9:35 am

Xest wrote:Those numbers regarding population of the UK at least are definetely a good few years out of date - the UKs population has passed 60million now, it was around 59.5 million in early 2003.

yes but you have to exclude people who don't speak english, like scousers and geordies etc, so maybe 57 million is accurate enough?

Post by **Xest** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 9:38 am

clearbrook wrote:yes but you have to exclude people who don't speak english, like scousers and geordies etc, so maybe 57 million is accurate enough?

If you exclude people who don't speak English in the UK then I guess like, 10 million is probably more accurate

Speaking of which a colleague's husband just got citizenship here and went to the citizenship ceremony and one woman at the ceremony needed a translator to translate from arabic for the entire ceremony, seeing as she was just being granted full British citizenship status I found that somewhat amusing.

Adianna · Post by **Adianna** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 10:25 am

We have the same thing with turks here. A lot of turkish people living in Germany, especially the elder ones, do not even intend to learn German. Was some debate here if you have to speak German to obtain german citizenship... most of their children though do learn German one anothe way as they are visiting german schools, so hopefully that problem will solve itself.

Btw. the numbers I found were 2005 numbers from a french statistics institute... and of course Russian isn't an EU language... Russia isn't in the EU, but it still is in Europe of course.

Heta · Post by **Heta** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 10:31 am

think its something like same amount of turks in germany as swedes in sweden

Post by **Xest** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 10:51 am

Heta wrote:think its something like same amount of turks in germany as swedes in sweden

Cos you live in polar bear land or whatever, only silly people would bother living somewhere so cold