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The world's languages – how many speakers?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 October 2008

Yvan Putseys
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Abstract

An analysis of current statistics regarding the number of people speaking the ‘major’ languages of the world

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Research Article
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English Today , Volume 9 , Issue 4 , October 1993 , pp. 4 - 12
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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