[Community-Discuss] Target large communities (was: Community-Discuss Digest, Vol 252, Issue 1)

[Badru Ntege]

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On 17 Jan 2018, at 00:49, Owen DeLong <owen at delong.com<mailto:owen at delong.com>> wrote:


In order, the top 10 are:

English (196M)
Arabic (140MM)
French (120MM)

Thanks for this list however to help clarify only the top three are actually the official languages in the countries.  Over 90% of African countries use these languages

Swahili or Kiswahili (100MM)
Hausa (70MM)
Berber (56MM)
Yoruba (28MM)
Oromo (26MM)
Amharic (22MM)
Igbo (18MM)

Total: 776MM

So the top 10 languages would cover roughly 15/16ths of the population.
If we move cover the top 5, we get 626MM or roughly 3/4 of the population.
The top 3 (English, Arabic, French) will cover 456MM or roughly 1/2 of the population.

I do find it interesting that the first African language comes in at number 4.

Owen

On Jan 16, 2018, at 07:58 , sm+afrinic at elandsys.com<mailto:sm+afrinic at elandsys.com> wrote:

Hi Mohammed,
At 06:24 AM 16-01-2018, mohammed at ntc.gov.sd<mailto:mohammed at ntc.gov.sd> wrote:
I believe If we want to rebalance the language gap we have to target large communities and reach the largest segment of them. Arabic-speaking African countries are more than ten countries. So, it's of high importance that the site should be translated into Arabic to ensure greater access to the community. It's worth mentioning that the main reason why Arab don't participate in AfriNIC or any other ICT-related event is the language.
As to who is going to do the translation, we can ask help from Arab volunteers. I, myself, would be very happy to participate in the translation process.

Thank you for providing the above input.  I wondered why the participation from Arabic-speaking African countries was relatively low.

Regards,
S. Moonesamy

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