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A requester in ticket:2023082210010407 has asked for changes, that there are 200 million speakers of this language per this refernce: https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000379702. — xaosflux Talk 13:29, 23 August 2023 (UTC)
Benwing Just stop. If you "don't want to waste your time" engaging, that's fine. And if you disagree with my point of view, that's fine too. But don't ascribe bias just because I disagree with you. You don't know me anymore than I know you. So stop.
But just in case you still do want to engage on the merits, I'm happy to have your perspective; I just don't agree with it for reasons I've stated (and referenced) above but I'll add to here; BBC, Harvard, SOAS, University of London, The East African and Citizen newspapers all quote Swahili speakers at atleast 200 million. The fact is, there is a preponderance of reliable sources that contradict the Ethnologue source, which is why I don't consider it having an accurate estimate of Swahili speakers.
First of all, the infobox for this article says the numbers are for (2019-2023), yet each source says 2024 for its date.
Secondly, the L1 number here is 5.3, while /info/en/?search=List_of_languages_by_total_number_of_speakers lists 16 million for L1, yet this article combines multiple varieties of Swahili, so should be higher. Both articles give Ethnologue as their source. Please fix this contradiction. 84.78.248.230 ( talk) 13:40, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
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A requester in ticket:2023082210010407 has asked for changes, that there are 200 million speakers of this language per this refernce: https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000379702. — xaosflux Talk 13:29, 23 August 2023 (UTC)
Benwing Just stop. If you "don't want to waste your time" engaging, that's fine. And if you disagree with my point of view, that's fine too. But don't ascribe bias just because I disagree with you. You don't know me anymore than I know you. So stop.
But just in case you still do want to engage on the merits, I'm happy to have your perspective; I just don't agree with it for reasons I've stated (and referenced) above but I'll add to here; BBC, Harvard, SOAS, University of London, The East African and Citizen newspapers all quote Swahili speakers at atleast 200 million. The fact is, there is a preponderance of reliable sources that contradict the Ethnologue source, which is why I don't consider it having an accurate estimate of Swahili speakers.
First of all, the infobox for this article says the numbers are for (2019-2023), yet each source says 2024 for its date.
Secondly, the L1 number here is 5.3, while /info/en/?search=List_of_languages_by_total_number_of_speakers lists 16 million for L1, yet this article combines multiple varieties of Swahili, so should be higher. Both articles give Ethnologue as their source. Please fix this contradiction. 84.78.248.230 ( talk) 13:40, 22 May 2024 (UTC)