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Is it relevant to point out that there are 36 speakers in Mauritius and 122 in Finland? I think we should stick to countries that have at least 1,000 speakers on the table. 2600:1702:6D0:5160:59CC:F3DA:7940:1F39 (talk) 01:51, 15 August 2023 (UTC)

@ 41.198.147.59 (talk) 07:53, 28 January 2024 (UTC)

I'm pretty sure there aren't 54 million native speakers — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:A03F:8185:5900:D539:399:882D:11D7 (talk) 14:24, 14 February 2024 (UTC)