[AGL] World's most widely spoken languages - HEY!

[blacky at cbn.net.id]

> The Summer Institute for Linguistics (SIL) Ethnologue Survey (1999) lists
> the following as the top languages by population:
> (number of native speakers in parentheses)
>
> 1. Chinese* (937,132,000)
> 2. Spanish (332,000,000)
> 3. English (322,000,000)
> 4. Bengali (189,000,000)
> 5. Hindi/Urdu (182,000,000)
> 6. Arabic* (174,950,000)
> 7. Portuguese (170,000,000)
> 8. Russian (170,000,000)
> 9. Japanese (125,000,000)
> 10. German (98,000,000)
> 11. French* (79,572,000)

There's got to be a reason why Indonesia, with the world's fifth-largest
population (around 230 million), a place where 90% of the populace speak
Bahasa Indonesia, the official language, is not on the list. I don't get
it.

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