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[edit] African country classifications dubious

South Africa does not have a majority of speakers of IE languages. Seems not much research went into the current official status of the former IE Colonial languages in the rest of Africa either - just painted Sub-Saharan Africa with a light-green brush, eh?

Please correct. Alternatively, I offer to do it on behalf of the Article Admin and post a link to the updated map image. Just post permission here and I'll go ahead. 62.24.195.87 (talk) 14:12, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

As at 12/01/08 the mini-map shown on the main article page appears correctly (South Africa NOT with majority IE speakers) but this map http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:IE_countries.svg seems not to have been updated. 62.24.195.87 (talk) 13:24, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Paraguay

I'm concerned about the classification of Paraguay. 80% of the populace there speaks the indigenous Guaraní language. Spanish may be the official language (maybe?) but that isn't the whole picture. There is also a population of German-speaking Anabaptists (Mennonites) who settled in the countryside in the 19th century. It is a stretch to consider this country a Spanish-speaking country in the sense of Colombia, etc. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.250.207.215 (talk) 16:54, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Asia

Hong Kong, Macau and Singapore should be included. Malaysia should also be considered for inclusion. Meursault2004 (talk) 18:18, 15 April 2008 (UTC)