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Blame it on the wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_language I think they probably exclude Central America. Heh Roger On 3/13/07, Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Sorry. Yup, a difference between Portuguese and Spanish. > > I don't think I understand your weighing of > Portuguese and Spanish. There are something like > 562 million people in Latin America, of which 186 > million are Brazilian and speak Portuguese or > indiginous languages. The rest speak Spanish or > indiginous languages. The percentage in either > case that speak only an indiginous language is > very small and shrinking. About twice as many speak Spanish as Portuguese. > > Mark -- My Stuff: http://www.badstep.net/ "Patriotism is a virtue of the vicious." Oscar Wilde