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From: brg@netcom.com (Bruce R. Gilson)
Subject: Re: Single European language: *NOT* European english
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In article <55pc1t$6hr@nntp1.best.com>,
Don HARLOW <don@donh.vip.best.com> wrote:


>>the Chinese were to suddenly turn massively expansionist and take over
>>the world, that might happen (only Mandarin outnumbers English in total
>>speakers, but it is confined largely to China, Mongolia, and Indochina).

[...]

>(2) Mandarin is, in fact, spoken all over the world -- it is probably
>easier to find speakers of Mandarin here in the U.S. than any other
>non-English language except, perhaps, Spanish, and I would guess that
>the same is true for Europe as a whole. Difference between Mandarin
>and English, of course, is that Mandarin is primarily spoken by ethnic
>Chinese -- but these days you can find them anywhere and everywhere.

In the US, there are more speakers of Cantonese than Mandarin. And there
are more people who use Italian or American Sign Language than either.


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