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Number of L1 speakers of Portuguese in Brazil is still wrong

Rodrigo Randig, Tue, 2022-11-15 04:55
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Brazil

I sent a message one year ago about how the population of L1 Portuguese speakers in Brazil was wrong - Brazil has over 211 million people, which Ethnologue correctly states, but Ethnologue states that there are only 201 million L1 spakers of Portuguese in Brazil. As a Brazilian linguist and member of the Foreign Service, I can affirm that Brazil, a country with only about 0.4% of its population born overseas, does not have nearly 1 million people whose L1 language is not Portuguese, let alone 10 million, as suggested by Ethnologue. 

At the time it was replied to me that, thanks to my contribution, "We will remove the L1 speaker populations for Venetian (Talian) [ve] and for German [deu] in Brazil, which is represented by Hunsrik [hrx] and Pomeranian [nds], and reduce the L1 speaker population for Italian [ita] in Brazil.  These changes will be included in the next edition of the Ethnologue." 

However, such changes were not reflected on the pages about Brazil and Portuguese, which continue to state that only 201 million people in Brazil speak Portuguese as L1, when it should be at least 210 million. I am available for providing any data on this, if needed. Thank you very much.

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