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The number of Istro-Romanian speakers has been reduced due to their assimilation into other linguistic groups that were either already present or introduced by their respective new rulers of Istria: in the 1921 Italian census, there were 1, 644 declared Istro-Romanian speakers in the area, while in 1926 Romanian scholar Sextil Pușcariu estimated their number to be closer to 3, 000.
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The number of Istro-Romanian speakers is very loosely estimated to be less than 500, the " smallest ethnic group in Europe " and listed among languages that are " seriously endangered " in the UNESCO Red Book of Endangered Languages.
Due to its very small number of speakers living in about eight minor hamlets and two considerable villages, notably Žejane and Šušnjevica, there is no public education or news media in their native Istro-Romanian language.
The actual fate of the Istro-Romanian language is very uncertain, because in Istria only about 350 people partly understand it ; its active bilingual speakers are fewer than 200 ( that is, those who openly admit they speak it, the actual number may be greater ), and fewer than 30 children know it now.
The medieval descendants of pastoral Delmatae in Dalmatian inlands conserved ( at least partly ) an Eastern Romance tongue ( see Istro-Romanian language ) with a large number of Slavic loanwords, called Morlachian dialect ( Murlaška besida ), persisting also in the Austrian Empire ; it was chiefly spoken by 2100 local shepherds around the recent town of Livno up to World War I.
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Today, it is estimated that fewer than 100 speakers of the language remain, while other research places the number at fewer than 15 speakers – the language has been regarded as “ endangered ”.
Chief among other English dialects are Canadian English ( based on the English of United Empire Loyalists who left the 13 Colonies ), and Australian English, which rank third and fourth in number of native speakers.
In recent decades the number of Welsh speakers in the town has increased dramatically.
The Pribilof Islands boast the highest number of active speakers of Aleutian.
The Bantu language with the largest total number of speakers is Swahili ; however, nearly all speakers know it as a second language.
This means that in spite of long having been the Celtic language with the highest number of speakers, the language is now endangered.
There are also a substantial number of Welsh speakers in the Patagonia area of Argentina.
SIL Ethnologue lists six " living " Celtic languages, of which four have retained a substantial number of native speakers.
UNESCO classifies Corsican as a potentially endangered language, as it has " a large number of children speakers " but is " without an official or prestigious status ".
The number of speakers grew rapidly over the next few decades, at first primarily in the Russian Empire and Central Europe, then in other parts of Europe, the Americas, China, and Japan.
With a population of approximately 3, 000, and the number of speakers in the mere hundreds, Alutiiq communities are currently in the process of revitalizing their language.
It gives the number of speakers, location, dialects, linguistic affiliations, availability of the Bible in the language, and so forth.
The number of speakers has grown gradually over time, although it has not had much support from governments and international bodies, and has sometimes been outlawed or otherwise suppressed.
At first a number of leading Esperantists put their support behind the Ido project, but the movement stagnated and declined, first with the accidental death of one of its main proponents and later as people proposed further changes, and the number of current speakers is estimated at between 250 and 5000.
Meanwhile Schleyer publishes a sketch of Volapük, the first constructed international auxiliary language to acquire a number of speakers.
The only minority language with a significant number of speakers ( 5. 4 %) was Polish ( a figure that rises to over 6 % when including Kashubian, Masurian, and other forms classified by the Imperial government as separate languages but today more often considered variants of Polish ).
It is the most widely spoken non-Indo-European language in Europe, based on the number of native speakers.
Hausa ( ه َ و ُ س َ, Yaren Hausa – language of the Hausa ) is the Chadic language with the largest number of speakers, spoken as a first language by about 25 million people, and as a second language by about 18 million more, an approximate total of 43 million people.
Non-native speakers of Hausa number around 25 million, and in some areas live close to native Hausa. Hausa has replaced many other languages especially in the North Central and North Eastern part of Nigeria, and continue gaining popularity in other parts of Africa as a result of Hausa movies and musics which spread out throughout the region.
Including the Italian speakers in non-EU European countries ( such as Switzerland and Albania ) and on other continents, the total number of speakers is more than 85 million.
Indo-European languages are spoken by almost three billion native speakers, the largest number by far for any recognised language family.
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Interest has been shown for a number of years by local assessors in the possibility of taxing boats.
Though the number of people flowing in and out of our metropolitan areas each day has increased tremendously since World War 2,, total annual rail commutation dropped 124 million for 1947 to 1957.
Such additional daytime class 2, assignments are appropriate if optimum use is to be made of these frequencies, and the Commission has over the years made a large number of them.
Since then, there has been a notable increase in the number of stations and also the accumulation of additional data and the development of new techniques for using it, leading to a better understanding of propagation phenomena.
If your state has no provisions for the numbering of pleasure boats, you must apply for a number from the U.S. Coast Guard for any kind of boat with mechanical propulsion rated at more than 10 horsepower before it can be used on Federal waterways.
The huge market for changeable signs has spurred a universal demand for individual plastic letters, in all shapes and sizes -- and a number of companies are set up to supply them.
For the last two years, this frontier of the arts has produced a number of so-called `` non-dramas '' which have left indelible, bittersweet impressions on the psyche of this veteran theatregoer.
The importance of the inorganic constituents in hard-surface cleaning has been emphasized in a number of papers.
Upon consideration of the variety of soils and fabrics normally encountered in the washing process, it is little wonder that the use of a number of detergent constituents having `` synergistic '' properties has gained widespread acceptance.
Worse still, in a number of cases it has been claimed that the Psithyrus female kills the Bombus queen.
The bottom part of a burrow has a number of side tunnels or `` cells '', each of which is provided with an egg plus a store of beebread.
Nevertheless, the theory that the determining influence of the hypothalamic balance has a profound influence on the clinical behavior of neuropsychiatric patients has not yet been tested on an adequate number of patients.
The number of successes on each shot is a value of a random variable that has values 0 or 1, and there are 5 such random variables here.
Their sum is X, the total number of successes, which in this experiment has the value Af.
Though there is obviously great need for continued experimentation with various types of short-term intervention to further efforts in developing an operational definition of prevention at the secondary -- or perhaps, in some instances, primary -- level, the place of short-term intervention has already been documented by a number of investigators in a wide variety of settings.
There is some indication from a limited number of interviews with members of the population that the element of power, primarily the voluntary influence of non-authoritative power, has been exerted on actors in the system, particularly in regard to mate selection.
An advanced student has read a considerable number of descriptions of consonantal systems, including some of the more unusual types.
This carryover right has a number of things in common with a net operating loss carryover.
In West Virginia the number of white and Negro children attending the same school has increased almost twofold.
Moreover, whereas in Interstate Commerce Commission parlance `` variable cost '' means a cost deemed to vary in direct proportion to changes in rate of output, in the type of analysis now under review `` variable cost '' has been used more broadly, so as to cover costs which, while a function of some one variable ( such as output of energy, or number of customers ), are not necessarily a linear function.
He remarked: `` It has been clearly established that in a number of instances the message did not come from a spirit but was received telepathically by the medium from the sitter ''.
Mrs. Marr also has a number of parolees to `` mother '', watching to see that they do not break their parole and that they also learn to readjust to society.
The recent publicity attending the successful federal prosecution of a conspiracy indictment against a number of electrical manufacturers has evoked a new respect for the anti-trust laws that is justified neither by their rationale nor by the results they have obtained.
In this connection, it has been observed that the increasing number of Irish Catholics, priests and laity, in England, while certainly seen as good for Catholicism, is nevertheless a source of embarrassment for some of the more nationalistic English Catholics, especially when these Irishmen offer to remind their Christian brethren of this good.
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