Re: Congratulation to this newsgroup!

On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, Chess One wrote:

I was once the publisher of an international non-profit who specialised in
rare language and culture studies. Some of the languages were so rare that
no one even knew their names! As fate arranges these things, I wound up with
a work-study student who spoke one of the rarest languages on earth, Tem
from Togo, which has [had?] only 100,000 speakers.


Then it is not one of the rarest languages on earth. There are large numbers
of languages whose speakers number in the hundreds, not thousands.

Matthew Huntbach
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