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From: philip@storcomp.demon.co.uk (Phil Hunt)
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Subject: Re: Languages in the EC
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In article <3h8v55$sbl@chleuasme.francenet.fr>
           mbonnaud@dialup.francenet.fr "Marc Bonnaud" writes:
> Con molto piacere Marcelo :
> 
> France : 58 M
> Wallonie + Bruxelles : 4,5 M
> Suisse francophone : 1,8 M

Switzerland is not in the EU. AFAIK it is not likely to join.

> 
> Totzl : 64,3 M
> 
> Royaume Uni : 58 M
> Irlande : 3,5 M
> 
> Total : 61,5 M
>  
> Remarque : il n'y a guere qu'en Alsace qu'il y a des 
> non-francophones de naissance.
>
> Les Bretons ou les Occitans
> apprennent leurs (jolies ) langues apres.

Like in Wales, where c. 400000 speak Cymric (Welsh). All of them speak
English as well.

-- 
Phil Hunt...philip@storcomp.demon.co.uk
Majority rule for Britain!
