Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of countries by spoken languages (2nd nomination)


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The result was delete‎__EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__. Liz Read! Talk! 23:13, 18 June 2023 (UTC)

List of countries by spoken languages
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WP:INDISCRIMINATE WP:OR/WP:SYNTH WP:CROSSCAT, mostly WP:UNSOURCED. It is completely arbitrary to create a list of countries by languages spoken, because 1 person not speaking the majority language is already a "minority". A single city like Brussels already has inhabitants speaking about 100 different native languages, and there's no point in marking these all as "minorities". In addition, CfDs dating as far back as 2019, recently repeatedly confirmed that language family is WP:NONDEFINING. Finally, if the topic of the list is spoken languages (a demographic question), why bother mentioning which languages are official, recognised or protected (a legal question)? This list has no clear topic, tries to be/do multiple things at once, and fails at all of them. Nederlandse Leeuw (talk) 19:49, 11 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Language, Geography,  and Lists. Nederlandse Leeuw (talk) 19:49, 11 June 2023 (UTC)


 * Delete let’s just say that basically every language is probably spoken by someone in the US, and it’s impossible to count every language spoken everywhere else because there’s always one random person (or a lot of random people) who speak Splotsylvanian in Florbistan even if it’s not even a top-10 language in Florbistan. Countries by majority languages maybe, but not literally every language spoken by at least x persons. Dronebogus (talk) 21:36, 11 June 2023 (UTC)
 * My thoughts exactly. (Well, admittedly I wasn't thinking about Splotsylvanian in Florbistan. But I put the question to a friend of mine: "Should we include "Karakalpakstani" in "Netherlands" if one inhabitant of Amsterdam spoke it?" She: "No. It has to be significant." I: "Ah, but how many people is "significant"?" She: "I don't know." It's just arbitrary.). Nederlandse Leeuw (talk) 21:51, 11 June 2023 (UTC)


 * Delete Each respective language should have a list of places where it's spoken, like Greek_language. With the US listed for 74 languages (https://language.mki.wisc.edu/essays/letzebuergesch-and-swiss-german-in-wisconsin/ was interesting to look up), I don't think this is a meaningful or useful list or any more useful than various other places. Reywas92Talk 17:42, 12 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete. This appears to be mostly original research and there are far too many unknowns about which minority languages are used in certain countries. Ajf773 (talk) 22:22, 14 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete. This is really the most linguistically weird page I have ever seen on WP. Suitskvarts (talk) 08:14, 17 June 2023 (UTC)


 * Delete a list can never be made based on spoken languages, there will always be one not included. Karnataka (talk) 09:38, 18 June 2023 (UTC)


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