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Wanted: Estimated numbers of speakers of aboriginal American languages

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From: David Mark
Date: Sat, 02 Jul 1994 15:40
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I would be interested in finding out recent estimates, as reliable as possible
(of course), of numbers of speakers of languages native to the Americas.  I
would like to get both recent estimates of numbers of native/first-language
speakers who are still fluent, and also numbers of native people whose
first language was English, Spanish, or French but who later became fluent
in their aboriginal language.  Reliable recent information about any language 
or languages is solicited, ad hoc estimates will be useful if more official
information is not available.  If there are published sources to support
any claims, I'd like to know those, and of course pointers to any
compendia, source books, handbooks, etc., that would have reliable recent
estimates would be great.  I am interested in estimates for both North
America and Latin America.   Thanks in advance.  I'll post a summary table
if I get enough information to justify such.

David Mark
Department of Geography
University at Buffalo
dmark@sun.acsu.buffalo.edu
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