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Italian. 



In Italy 26.796.253 



„ France 540,985 



,, Switzerland .... 186,000 



27,524,23s 

 Italy has a certain commercial currency in the Mediter- 

 ranean, but has not taken root. 



French. 



In France 36,225.000 



„ Belgium 2.325.000 



,, Switzerland 638,000 



France has very few colonies. If all their\ 

 populations spoke French, it would only 

 add 3,631,000 persons. A million is a fairf 



estimate J 



40,188,000 

 Russian. 



It has been said that there are 24 languages spoken in 

 the Russian Empire, but the prevailing one is the Russ, 

 and the number of those who speak it is reckoned at 

 51,370,000. 



Spanish. 

 Spain, including the Canary and Balearic Isles. 16,301,000 

 South America. If we give Spanish all the) 



South American States except Brazil, - 27.40S.0S2 



there will be | 



43,709,082 

 German. 



German Empire 41.05S.000 



Austria 9,160,000 



Belgium 2,747,000 



Russia 9S5.000 



Finland 1.000 



Switzerland 1, S3 $,000 



55,789,000 



De Candolle has estimated the German-speaking peoples 

 at 62,000,000, which appears too high a figure.* 



* These figures are chiefly taken from the " Almanach de Gotha '" for 1873, 

 the conjectural estimates of the number of foreign-speaking people in each 

 country being omitted. There may be fifty thousand Germans in Great Britain, 

 and one thousand of them in Greece, but it is a matter of conjecture which 

 does not affect the question we have in view. 



