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Dubious number of speakers

dusseaux.antoine_289191, Sun, 2023-01-01 06:47
Regarding: 
Population
ISO 639-3: 
bul

See this discussion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Bulgarian_language#Number_of_speakers

Especially this part: "The same page gives the speakers in Bulgaria as 6,840,000, citing "European Commission 2012". Again, it's not clear what document this is, but I'd assume it's this Eurobarometer survey report. It was conducted at more or less the same time as the 2011 Census, but it reports about a million more speakers. Given that it's based on an inevitably small sample size, it can safely be discarded in favour of the census figure"

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We will update the country population for Bulgaria, and then update the L1 speaker population for Bulgarian [bul] in Bulgaria, adding an L2 speaker population as well, for inclusion in the next edition of the Ethnologue.

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