According to Ethnologue, there are over 40 million L2 speakers

According to Ethnologue, the majority of the population speaks Somali ( 297, 000 speakers ) or Afar ( 99, 200 speakers ) as a first language, which are the mother tongues of the Somali and Afar ethnic groups, respectively.

According to Ethnologue, there were approximately 471, 000 Kipsigis speakers in 2007, with the number increasing.

According to Ethnologue, there are " 200 – 2, 000 " who speak Esperanto as a first language.

According to the 2001 Census of India, Telugu is the language with the third largest number of native speakers in India ( 74 million ), thirteenth in the Ethnologue list of most-spoken languages worldwide, and most spoken Dravidian language.

According to Ethnologue, it is the second most widely spoken Bantu language after Shona.

According to Ethnologue 16, several of the Malayan varieties they currently list as separate languages, including the Orang Asli varieties of Peninsular Malay, are so closely related to standard Malay that they may prove to be dialects.

According to Ethnologue, there are 200 Afro-Seminole Creole speakers in Bracketville, which makes the town the only one in the country where this creole is still spoken.

According to Ethnologue, seven varieties of Romani are divergent enough to be considered languages of their own.

According to Ethnologue, there are around 300. 000 Pomaks in Turkey.

The Konkani language in Kerala is also sometimes written in the Malayalam script ,< ref name =" Lo ">— According to ISO 639-3 and Ethnologue, Konkani (< tt > knn </ tt >) and Goan Konkani (< tt > gom </ tt >) are two dialects.

According to the Ethnologue, there are over 1 billion speakers of English as a first or second language as of 1999.

According to Ethnologue, it has 50, 000 to 100, 000 native signers.

According to the Ethnologue, the Lozi language is " spoken as lingua franca by all East Caprivians.

According to SIL / Ethnologue, there are 200, 000 Gen-speakers in Togo in 1991, and 130, 000 in Benin in 2006.

According to Ethnologue. com, in 2006 there were around 3, 123, 190 hassaniya speakers, distributed in:

According to the Ethnologue 2005 estimate, there are 88 million native speakers of the Punjabi language, which makes it the twelfth most widely spoken language in the world.

According to the Ethnologue database, there were more than three million Hassaniya speakers in 2006, of whom 2. 7 million resided in Mauritania.

According to Ethnologue with figures from 1998, 77 % of Crow people over 66 years old speak the language ; " some " parents and older adults, " few " high school students and " no pre-schoolers " speak Crow.

According to the Indian Government, Chhattisgarhi is an eastern dialect of Hindi, but it is classified as a separate language in Ethnologue.

According to the Ethnologue ( 2009 ), Shenwa has 76, 300 speakers.

According to Ethnologue, as of 2004 there were about 10, 000 speakers of the Northern Ōshima dialect and about 1, 800 speakers of the Southern Ōshima dialect.

According to Ethnologue, Azerbaijani is used as literary language and speakers also use Azerbaijani.

According to Ethnologue, there are approximately 3, 960, 000 Kamba speakers, with the number increasing.

According to a special report which appeared in El Diario de Hoy in 2009 due to the current preservation and revitalization efforts of various non-profit organizations in conjunction with several universities combined with a post-civil war resurgence of Pipil identity in the country of El Salvador the current number of Nawat speakers has risen from 200 in the 1980s to 3, 000 speakers at the time of the reports writing, the vast majority being young people giving the language hope of being pulled from the brink of extinction.

According to the Suda ( an 11th-century encyclopaedia of Byzantium which likely took its information from traditional accounts ), Herodotus learned the Ionian dialect as a boy living on the island of Samos, whither he had fled with his family from the oppressions of Lygdamis, tyrant of Halicarnassus and grandson of Artemisia I of Caria.

According to Lorentz, the Krajniacki dialect most probably was originally a part of the Polish language.

According to Arrian, when settlers from Cyme came to Side, they could not understand the dialect.

According to a study based only on pronunciation, the dialect region of western Pennsylvania ranges north to Erie, Pennsylvania, west to Youngstown, Ohio, south to Clarksburg, West Virginia, and east to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania ( Labov, Ash and Boberg 2005 ), but different features may be differently distributed.

According to Watson, troy is not linked to the town in France, but a dialect word troi ( balance ).

According to language experts, the Tagalog dialects of Marinduque are the most divergent, especially the Eastern Marinduque dialect, perhaps due to the relative isolation from the Tagalogs of Luzon and also perhaps due to the influence of the Visayan and Bikol migrants.

According to Bradley, the languages cluster as follows ( dialect information from the Tibetan Dialects Project at the University of Bern ):

According to Athanasius Kircher, tiorba was a nickname in the Neapolitan dialect that actually denoted the grinding board used by perfumers for grinding essence and herbage.

According to their account, she continued to weep even as she spoke to them-first in French, then in their own dialect.

According to the Italian linguist Giacomo Devoto, there are still a number of Celtic substrata in the Romagnolo dialect.

According to the same linguistic survey, the dialect is flourishing in the areas where it is spoken, despite the fact that most speakers are also fluent in German.

According to his opinion, her success was probably chiefly due to her beauty and her use of the local Boeotian dialect, as opposed to the Doric of Pindar's poems.

According to records of the Eastern Jin, the earliest known dialect of Nanjing was an ancient Wu dialect.

According to his initial survey Balti resembles more the Kham dialect than other Tibetan dialects of U and Thsang, Amdo, and others.

According to a 1950's survey performed by the Chinese government, the Bouyei language as spoken in Guizhou can be divided into three general dialect groups ( Snyder 2008 ).

According to Gerteiny ( 1967 ), it is " a strange version of Hassaniyya restructured on an Azêr base "; Hassaniyya is an Arabic dialect and Azer is a Soninke dialect.

According to Robert Arnaud ( 1906 ), " around Tichit the Nemadi employ a dialect called Azeïr which is close to Soninke.

According to Gerteiny ( 1967 ), they speak " their own dialect, probably a mixture of Azêr, Zenaga, and Hassaniyya, called Ikôku by the Moors.

According to Valentin Yanin and Andrey Zaliznyak, most documents are ordinary letters by various people written in what is considered to be a vernacular dialect.