User:Inahet/list

I'm using the help of an online translator to translate the following list taken from the German Wikipedia: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_von_Staaten_mit_indigener_muttersprachlich_arabischer_Bev%C3%B6lkerung

I started over with a fresh copy from the german wikipedia. Please check for all the intra-wiki-links to be pointing correctly. Furthermore, please check all country names, country adjectives, language names, dialect names and all occassions with upper-lower-case-problems. I'm pretty sure that I got lots of them wrong. If you are not sure of the correct translation of the german term yourself, consider using the inter-wikilink of the corresponding german-wp-article before using an online translator.

Recommended online translator for de-en-de: http://dict.leo.org/

Please give me some feedback about this translation on my talkpage at de.WP :D

I request this page to be moved to the final Lemma-Name, once one has been pinned down, instead of being source-copied, since moving preserves the article history according to GFDL. --Schmiddtchen 00:49, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

Arabic is spoken by about 240 million native speakers and about 60 million speakers using it as a second language. The following values are partially based on estimations and countings many years old already.

1) Member of the Arabic League

2) Not acknowleged internationally as nation

< means „a bit more than“, > means „a bit less than“

In this table native arabic speakers who have been living outside their homecountry for only a brief period of time or only few generations have not been considered. Among them are for example about 5 million Palesteenians.

Take note that this table only includes the indigenous arabic-speaking population. This often explains a suprisingly small figure in the fraction of the total population-column.

External links and references
This list is widely based on
 * Ethnologue - Languages of the World

Further information can be found in the
 * CIA - World Factbook

Category:Arabic Language