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eric5014 t1_j5y4e47 wrote

TIL there is a Bhojpuri language with 50M speakers.

A large number of them look insignificant at 0.001-0.01%, but that's still like 10-100k people. The Australian census lists 500 languages including over 200 Aboriginal languages, some of them with number of speakers in one or two digits.

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