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Do you speak one of the following languages?: Mandarin, Spanish, English... #68

Closed marvinbarretto closed 1 year ago

marvinbarretto commented 10 years ago

..., Hindi, Arabic, Portuguese or Bengali?

According to some stats at http://www.ethnologue.com/statistics/size, we can divide the world in to half from people who can or can't speak one of the languages above...

Again it doesn't work well with the current #2, however it does look rather similar and would possibly cause its own problems in its current form?

papriwalprateek commented 10 years ago

This question should be rather --

Is one of the following languages your first language(mother tongue) - English, Hindi, Arabic, Portuguese, Bengali, Mandarin, or Spanish?

marvinbarretto commented 10 years ago

@papriwalprateek Well, I deliberately worded it 'do you speak', since the stats of native speakers of these languages totalled a far lower number than just able speakers... I think native speakers of those languages only add up to ~30/40% of world pop.