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    Posted: 04-Feb-2006 at 11:12

Iran (Population: around 70 m)

1.Azeri (23.5 m)
2.Persian (22 m)
3.Kurdish (6.7 m)
4.Gilaki (3.2 m)
5.Mazani (3.2 m)
6.Luri (2.3 m)
7.Turkmen (2 m)
8.Qashqai (1.5 m)
9.Arabic (1.4 m)
10.Domari (1.3 m)
11.Laki (1 m)
12.Bakhtiari (1 m)
13.Baluchi (0.9 m)
14.Khorasani Turkish (0.5 m)
15.Dari (0.3 m)
16.Armenian (0.2 m)
17.Hazaragi (0.2 m)
18.Takestani (0.2 m)
19.Aimaq (0.2 m)
20.Pashto (0.1 m)
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where do these figures come from?
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Don't the Azeris, Mazanis, Bakhtiaris, etc. learn Persian as a second language? It's strange that there are more Azeri speakers in Iran, than Persian speakers.
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some more:
21. Gorani
22. Tati
23. Ashtiani
24. Taleshi
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Well, if you are going by languages per se then Kurdish will have to be broken down into Sorani, Kermanji, Kermanshahi and Gorani (which actually itself has two sublanguages).
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then we better stick with "Indo-Iranian languages" or even better "Indo-European languages"
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http://www.ethnologue.com/country_index.asp?place=Asia

this is best site about languages
http://www.turks.org.uk/
16th century world;
Ottomans all Roman orients
Safavids in Persia
Babur in india
`azerbaycan bayragini karabagdan asacagim``
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  1. Arabic
  2. Kurdish
  3. Turkmen
  4. Armenian
  5. Assyrian
  6. Syriac
  7. Aramaic
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Originally posted by Ahmed The Fighter

  1. Arabic
  2. Kurdish
  3. Turkmen
  4. Armenian
  5. Assyrian
  6. Syriac
  7. Aramaic

are you really from iraq? is it dangerous over there?
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"English is Australia's national language. At the same time Australia's cultural vitality is also a product of other languages spoken in the community. Over 200 languages are spoken, including 48 Australian Indigenous languages. In 1996, 2.5 million people (16% of the population five years and over) spoke a language other than English at home." ABS

These would of changed somewhat and dont completely reflect the ethnic numbers (just the speakers). Greeks will eventually get knocked of third place for instance (and i know there are more greeks or italians than that % given)

The Top15 including english

1996 statistics (%population that speak at home)
1. Australian english
2. Italian                                    (2.3%)
3. Greek                                     (1.6%)
4. Cantonese                             (1.2%)
5. Arabic                                     (1%)
4. Vietnamese                            (0.8%)
5. German                                  (0.6%)
6. Mandarin                                (0.5%)
7. Spanish                                  (0.5%)
8. [Slavic] Macedonian               (0.4%)
9. Tagalog (filipino)                    (0.4%)
10. Croatian                               (0.4%)
11. Polish                                   (0.4%)
12. Maltese                                (0.3%)
13. Indegenoius                        (0.3%)
14. Turkish                                (0.3%)
15 Dutch/Flemish                      (0.3%)
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Turkmen

Calling the Turkish language of the Turkmens of Iraq as "Turkmen" doesn't make much sense at all. Calling them Turkmens was one of the ethnic digesting policies of Saddam, to disconnect them from their ethnic and historical bounds with Turkey.

Anyway, Turkmens speak a totally similar dialect to Azeri of Iran, closer to Anatolian Turkish than Turkmen of Central Asia.
Garibim, namima Kerem diyorlar,
Asli'mi el almis, harem diyorlar.
Hastayim, derdime verem diyorlar,
Marasli Seyhoglu Satilmis'im ben.
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Originally posted by Cyrus

18.Takestani (0.2 m)

If you refer to Takestan near Qazvin.
As I know there is no accent that called Takestani.
It called Tati.
& so Takestan is very small city, how do 0.2m speak it???

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USA- American English

NYC, Miami, LA- You name it!
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Swedish

Official minority languages:

Smi (North Smi, Lule Smi and South Smi)

Finnish

Menkieli/ Tornedalian finnish

Yiddish

Romani Chib
Nu guhk go mis leat meahcit, de lea mis dorvu dn eatnam alde

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Latvia in % statistic from 2005

Latvians     - 58,9
Russians     - 28,6
Belarussians - 3,8
Ukrainians   - 2,6
Poles        - 2,4
Lithuanians - 1,4
Jews        - 0,4
Estonians    - 0,1
Others       - 1,8

Total population 2 300 000

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Ethnic squad in Lithuania:

Lithuanians - 83,45 proc.,

Polish - 6,74 proc.,

Russians - 6,31 proc.,

White Ruthenians(Belarusians, as many thinks) - 1,23 proc.,

others - 2,27 proc.

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Originally posted by Sino Defender

Originally posted by Ahmed The Fighter

  1. Arabic
  2. Kurdish
  3. Turkmen
  4. Armenian
  5. Assyrian
  6. Syriac
  7. Aramaic

are you really from iraq? is it dangerous over there?

Very dangerous.
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Are you talking about the languages that are spoken from immigrants in your countries or the various dialects?
"We are Macedonians but we are Slav Macedonians.That's who we are!We have no connection to Alexander the Greek and his Macedonia�Our ancestors came here in the 5th and 6th century" Kiro Gligorov FYROM
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People's Republic of China(population 1.3 billion)

too many to list(there are 236)

Chinese dialects above 1 million speakers
1.  Mandarin
2.  Wu(shanghainese)
3.  Yue(cantonese)
4.  Hakka
5.  Min(nan, bei, zhong)
6.  Gan
7.  Xiang
8.  Jin

minority languages above 1 million
1.  Zhuang
2.  Hmong(miao)
3.  Dai(thai)
4.  Yao
5.  Uyghur
6.  Mongol
7.  Korean
8.  Tibetan
9.  Yi(lolo)

i'm sure i missed some



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