Errors in map tab / number of speakers

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Errors in map tab / number of speakers

SyntaxTerror, Fri, 2022-09-30 20:06
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The map in the Map tab appears to be incorrect.

It seems very unlikely that there are Corsican speakers in South America.

There are also some speakers in northern Sardinia (the Italian island south of Corsica), but I can't give a reliable source for that.

I found some maps on this site, but the sources are not clear:

I contacted the author of the site, Jacques Leclerc, to know if he can give me the sources of these map

I also discovered that the number of speakers of Corsican could be 120,000 in France, according to the DGLFLF (Délégation générale à la langue française et aux langues de France, General Delegation for the French language and languages of France).
I found this on a PDF from the French Senate's Committee on Culture, Education and Communication (https://www.senat.fr/lessentiel/ppl19-321_1.pdf page 2) dated December 11, 2020 (there are other figures on French local languages that may be useful in this PDF as well).

Editorial Action

We will remove the empty entries for Corsican [cos] in Puerto Rico, Cuba, Venezuela and Uruguay, and update the L1 population for Corsican [cos] in France, for inclusion in the next edition of the Ethnologue.

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Chuck Fennig, Fri, 2022-10-07 11:55

Dear Olivier,

Thank you for this information about Corsican [cos] on the interactive map (https://www.ethnologue.com/language/cos/map) in the Ethnologue.

I will be removing Corsican [cos] from the Ethnologue database for the following countries, based on the fact that there are no population figures, locations or sources available:
Cuba, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Uruguay

I will also inform the cartographers that Corsican should not be shown on the map for those countries.

Additionally, I will update the number of Corsican speakers in France, based on your source.

Best regards,

Chuck Fennig
Managing Editor, Ethnologue

SyntaxTerror, Fri, 2022-10-07 12:00

Dear Chuck

I have not yet received a reply from Leclerc.

Best regards, Olivier

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