RE: how many arabs do exist ?

[Arafat Medini <lumina at silverpen dot de>]

266 million?

After getting the official list of the arabic countries registered in
the Arabic leage I got roughly 266 million ppl, living in the "Arabic
world"
Well I would suppose ppl from djibouti are not really Arabs or south
sudan also (maybe), but I'll go with that number.

yours
Arafat

Am Son, den 21.03.2004 schrieb Musab Al-Rawi um 08:27:
> >From: Arafat Medini <lumina at silverpen dot de>
> >Salam,
> >
> >for gome 2.6 release I was asked to say how many ppl speak the arabic
> >language, so minorites aside, how many arabic do exist ?
> >Any help pls?
> >
> >yours
> >Arafat
> 
> poeple who live in middle east (speak arabic by default) are more than one 
> billion,
> add to that islamic countries such as pakistan, india, indonisia etc who 
> need to learn arabic in order to pray and worship God as muslims.
> of course people of the second group most of them don't speak arabic 
> fluently and some they dont even speak arabic at all.... BUT u can say that 
> there are more than billion people who speak
> arabic and u noone can say that u r wrong :)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Musab Al-Rawi.
> Lecturer at Sharja Univ.
> Mobile +971 50 367 0624
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