Talk:List of languages by total number of speakers
Latest comment: 2 days ago by A455bcd9 in topic Why separate Iranian Persian from Afghan and Tajiki Persian?
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French second language is over calculated
editIt looks like French second language was taking account for anyone knowing the "oui" word. 2806:103E:2A:6538:75A3:3A3B:88C5:9D42 (talk) 19:16, 26 October 2023 (UTC)
Why separate Iranian Persian from Afghan and Tajiki Persian?
editIranian Persian, Afghani Persian, and Tajiki Persian should be counted as one language in the list (Persian). They are all mutually intelligible dialects of Persian, akin to British English and American English. Thewikixx (talk) 03:48, 11 June 2024 (UTC)
- The source does so, so we have to do so. Also, Tajiki Persian uses a different alphabet so all sources consider it a different language for this reason (the same goes for Hindi and Urdu, Serbian and Croatian, and Southern and Northern Azeri). For Dari and Farsi, it's all about politics, unfortunately. a455bcd9 (Antoine) (talk) 07:47, 11 June 2024 (UTC)