[Sigia-l] RE: language list

[Jonathan Bieley]

A reference is: The World's Major Languages, The World's Major Languages 
B. Comrie, ed.: 

http://tinyurl.com/4xqc7 

It lists the top 50 (I don't know the ranking criteria). While this review is 
somewhat critical of the list:

http://brneurosci.org/reviews/comrie.html

It seems a good start. Note that the table of contents - listing all 50 - is 
viewable at Amazon with the "See inside" feature.

For a more metric approach, here is data from Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_speakers


Jon Bieley
MapleStar Consulting, LLC