Make sure http://www.unicode.org/cldr/charts/29/supplemental/territory_language_information.html includes information about Norwegian, Danish, German, French, Spanish and Arabic, so that they can be prioritised for new users/browsers/devices.
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Have created tickets for Danish, Norwegian, German, French and Spanish with data from Eurobarometers 386 and 243; for Arabic, Persian and Polish with data from Sveriges språk i siffror – Vilka språk talas och av hur många? by Mikael Parkvall.
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http://unicode.org/cldr/trac/ticket/10277 to http://unicode.org/cldr/trac/ticket/10285 I suppose? (Linking because bus factor. :P)
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A reminder that this is on the "Ready to Go" column: maybe you can already evaluate whether it's something for next quarter instead. Thank you!
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Nothing really has happened in one year. Is there any value in keeping this task open? @Johan, if you want to keep track of this as a volunteer, this is fine of course, but then maybe better with a volunteer account? Otherwise I would just close it or detach it completely from our team boards & members. (For personal reminders Phabricator offers flags as well.)
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Re-assigning. In reality, I suppose this was always a volunteer project.
Four years later, I have no faith the CLDR is interested in mapping which languages is understood by any significant number of Swedes. No languages have been added – not languages that are mutually intelligible like Norwegian, not languages that are widely taught in Swedish schools like German, not a major immigrant language like Arabic. Interlingua, at 0.0%, remains listed, though, which means that anything based on CLDR will prioritise it above Norwegian or German or Arabic.
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Noting there was a reply upstream after 8 years, to one of the tickets:
Thanks for bringing this up. Apologies for the delay in resolving the ticket.
The problem we face is that we’re trying to get the top X languages in each country as well as the top Y countries for each language. If Interlingua is small worldwide, but relatively larger in Sweden its on the list. As you indicated, in reality, it is further down the list.
I think an ideal solution for your application would be if CLDR committed to all languages over Z% or the top 20 or so language per country. While I’m amicable to that idea – others would be concerned about data growth. So, for now, I’m going to leave this task in limbo. I’m working on refining the methodology we use in collecting data, perhaps I’ll be able to add this in the workstream.