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Political aspects of language classification:1) When languages are reclassified, [...] eg. demise of Yugoslavia as a political entity led to the official distinction as separate languages of Bosnian and Montenegrin, which had been categorized within former Serbo-Croatian (itself a single language divided into national varieties distinguished by different alphabets because of religious differences)
— Dec 08, 2021 09:05AM
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Chinese is an L1 for many more people than any other language, and English is by far the most common L2. In China alone, a recent estimate of numbers of people studying English exceeds 155 million: 10 million in elementary school, 80 million in high school, at least 5 million in universities, and 60 million adults in other instructional contexts. Many more millions will soon be added to these estimates...
— Dec 08, 2021 05:40AM
