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I would theorize that second used slavic language is not Ukrainian but Serbo-Croatian, at risk of getting hated by everybody mentioned. It also has a rare prop
by guard-of-terra 12y ago
I would theorize that second used slavic language is not Ukrainian but Serbo-Croatian, at risk of getting hated by everybody mentioned.
It also has a rare property of coming with two alphabets - cyrillic and latin.
- perokreco 12y agoPoland has more than double the number of people than Serbia + Croatia + Bosnia + Montenegro.
- guard-of-terra 12y agoYou're certainly right, third then.
- dimitar 12y agoFourth. While Ukraine is a bilingual country, it still much bigger than former Yugoslavia. Most people there consider it their native language and a majority know it. So if you are strongly biased for a small number you'll get 30 million speakers, if you are biased for a big number it might be 50 million. And on top of that you must use the same criterion for the S-C language, not counting Slovenians, Albanians, Macedonians, etc who know the language but don't use it much anymore.
- abrowne 12y agoFWIW Wikipedia lists Polish at 40M, Ukrainian at 30M, and Serbo-Croatian at 19M, for native speakers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of_native_speakers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of...