In message <[email protected][66.81.56.44]> [log in to unmask] writes:
> At 20:31 +0000 2003-10-19, John Clews wrote:
>
> >Ken Whistler stated a couple of years ago that there are more users
> >of Klingon than Navajo
>
> I am sure this was overstated. There is a least a hundred thousand
> native speakers of Navajo.

Probably. Perhaps Ken's figures were based on Internet use or
something.

You can be sure that with Ken's professional linguistic background
with North American languages, he's not going to belittle any North
American language,

It was a throwaway remark at the start of a ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG20
meeting, but based on something he'd seen.

John

Best regards

John Clews

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