If the various Chinese languages/dialects are similar enough to be counted in a single category, then certainly Swiss German Is similar enough to the German spoken in Germany and Austria to be counted in the same category.
Sent from my iPhone > On May 27, 2015, at 07:59, Denis Jacquerye <moy...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The data used to build the infographic comes from Ethnologue.com. > http://www.ethnologue.com/language/deu does not indicate the Standard German > L1 population in Austria and gives a population of 727 000 Standard German L1 > speakers in Switzerland (the difference is counted as Swiss German L1 > speakers). > >> On Wed, 27 May 2015 at 11:22 Mark Davis ☕️ <m...@macchiato.com> wrote: >> Hmmm. How accurate can it be? They forgot Austria, and got Switzerland wrong >> by almost a power of 10. >> >> >> Mark >> >> — Il meglio è l’inimico del bene — >> >>> On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 10:18 AM, Denis Jacquerye <moy...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> The South China Morning Post published a similar infographic: >>> A world of languages - and how many speak them >>> http://www.scmp.com/infographics/article/1810040/infographic-world-languages
