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| administrator Hexaglot Forum Admin Switzerland FXcuisine.com Joined 7189 days ago 3094 posts - 2987 votes  12 sounds Speaks: French*, EnglishC2, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian Personal Language Map | Message 9 of 11 21 September 2005 at 10:53am | IP Logged | ||
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Shusaku - thanks a lot for your update, I wast at a loss for the GDP. 400 bn USD it will be, but what should we use for the number of countries - 2?
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| Shusaku Senior Member United States Joined 6913 days ago 145 posts - 157 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese | Message 10 of 11 21 September 2005 at 12:03pm | IP Logged | ||
According to these websites: http://www.ethnologue.com/14/show_language.asp?code=YUH http://www.answers.com/topic/language-in-canada http://www.abs.gov.au/Ausstats/abs@.nsf/Lookup/7DF24DBD701CE 508CA25699F0005D614 ... the following countries outside of China all have more than 100,000 Cantonese speakers (some of these statistics are old but it should give at least a rough estimate): Vietnam - 900,000 Singapore - 313,000 Malaysia - 748,000 Indonesia - 180,000 Canada - 322,315 Australia - 190,000 For some reason I couldn't find any published statistics for the US and the UK just now, but I'm sure I remember them being in the same range as Canada or maybe even higher. Definitely a few hundred thousand or so. If we use 100,000 as the bar, then that would make 9 countries. I'll leave it up to your discretion. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| victor Tetraglot Moderator United States Joined 7131 days ago 1098 posts - 1056 votes 6 sounds Speaks: Cantonese*, English, FrenchC1, Mandarin Studies: Spanish Personal Language Map | Message 11 of 11 21 September 2005 at 7:54pm | IP Logged | ||
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For areas where Cantonese is officially recognized, as far as I know, there are only the Special Administrative Regions of Hong Kong and Macau (note: 2 separate regions) of the People's Republic of China. This would be a tricky one to determine. FX, do you usually include countries where the language is not official?
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