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 Ethnologue, the Hihue or Hoy dialect is considered the standard ; Haila ’ er, Aoluguya ( Olguya ), Chenba ’ erhu ( Old Bargu ), and Morigele ( Mergel ) dialects also exist.

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 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 World Bank official, 30 percent of Armenia's economy in 2009 came from the construction sector.

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2009 impact factor of 4. 174, ranking it first among 255 journals in the category " Mathematics ".

According to the 2009 CIA World Factbook, there are a total of 43 airports in Belgium, 27 of which have paved runways.

According to the International Reciprocal Trade Association, the industry trade body, more than 450, 000 businesses transacted $ 10 billion globally in 2008 – and officials expect trade volume to grow by 15 % in 2009.

According to Okrent ( 2009, p. 190 ), there was a final period of conflict, as Bliss would make continuous criticisms to McNaughton often followed by apologies.

According to the most recent classification scheme, the APG III of 2009, the order includes five families: Commelinaceae, Haemodoraceae, Hanguanaceae, Philydraceae, and Pontederiaceae.

According to the CIA World FactBook, the GDP contracted an estimated-1. 7 % in 2009.

According to the CIA World Factbook, Costa Rica's GDP per capita is US $ 10, 900 ( 2009 ); however, there is a lack of maintenance and new investment in infrastructure, 21. 3 % of the people living below the poverty line and 7. 8 % ( 2009 ) unemployed.

According to a report in Nature magazine, ( November, 2009 ) the first year-by-year accounting of this mechanism during the industrial era, and the first time scientists have actually measured it, suggests " the oceans are struggling to keep up with rising emissions — a finding with potentially wide implications for future climate.

According to Wikileaks CableGate documents ( reference ID " 09LONDON1156 "), in a calculated move planned in 2009, the UK proposed that the BIOT become a " marine reserve " with the aim of preventing the former inhabitants from returning to their lands.

According to the US Department of State 2009 human rights report there are hundreds of political prisoners in Ethiopia.

* According to the June 2009 update of the Cisco Visual Networking Index IP traffic forecast, by 2013, annual global IP traffic will reach two-thirds of a zettabyte or 667 exabytes.

* According to the Digital Britain Report, 494 exabytes of data was transferred across the globe on June 15, 2009.

According to NOAA, El Niño conditions were in place in the equatorial Pacific Ocean starting June 2009, peaking in January – February.

* God According to God: A Physicist Proves We've Been Wrong About God All Along, ( 2009 ), ISBN 978-0-06-171015-5.

According to a statement in July 2009 by a legal counsel of the Honduras military, Colonel Herberth Bayardo Inestroza, the Honduran military was opposed to President Manuel Zelaya, whom the military had removed from Honduras a few days earlier, because of his left-wing politics.

According to a report by the United Nations, the Taliban and other militants were responsible for 76 % of civilian casualties in 2009, 75 % in 2010 and 80 % in 2011.

According to a Cornell University press release from January 2009, the 2008 – 09 season will be the last Cornell-sponsored search, absent confirmation of the bird:

According to the all-time ranking published in 2009 by the International Federation of Football History and Statistics, an organization recognised by FIFA, based on clubs ' performance in international competitions, Juventus were Italy's best club and second in Europe of the 20th century.

According to the U. S. Department of Justice, all " special administrative measures " in place against Lindh expired on March 20, 2009, as part of a gradual easing of restrictions on him.

According to statistics collected in 2009, there are 35, 684 song rooms in Korea with an average of 1. 9 million people participating each day.

According to Guinness World Records 2009, Led Zeppelin hold the world record for the " Highest Demand for Tickets for One Music Concert " as 20 million requests for the reunion show were rendered online.

According to the World Bank and International Monetary Fund estimates, real GDP growth reduced from 8 % to 2. 7 % in 2009, and exports shrunk 26 % from $ 2. 5Bn to $ 1. 9Bn after a promisingly steady increase up until 2008.

According to the records compiled by the United States Sentencing Commission, in 2009, the United States Department of Justice typically convicted a little over 81, 000 people ; of this, approximately 800 are convicted of money laundering as the primary or most serious charge.