The global spread of the Indo-european language family
The global spread of the Indo-european language family
The global spread of the Indo-european language family
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How is no one in 1950 native to European languages in africa besides south africa?
I'm guessing, it doesn't list the colonizers there, because in terms of numbers, they're irrelevant...
Yes, let's ignore the whole of the Americas and Australia.
Lots of people in African ex colonies are native speakers of Portuguese and French. I presume this was already the case in 1950.
Then I guess, I was guessing wrong? I'm not trying to claim anything and I did specify "there", because I did notice the Americas and Australia. I assumed, the definition of "native speaker" was maybe a bit special here...
It's confusing specially because it highlights south africa but nothing else.
My thinking was that South Africa might have had more immigrants from Europe and such than e.g. Congo. At least, I believe, South Africa is particularly known for having many white folks there. But yeah, I'm also just spitballing...