From 73f7be077306577f5d34b9d0004367de6784b57a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: TimRB <38668131+TimothyRbz@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2024 15:41:09 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Update population.md / found a repetition (#188) * Update population.md Just noticed this repetition, and trying to get used to edit (commit) in GitHub. * adressed Amit's comment --------- Co-authored-by: Amit Moryossef --- docs/docs/facts/population.md | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/docs/facts/population.md b/docs/docs/facts/population.md index 23f7a7eb..91ee29c8 100644 --- a/docs/docs/facts/population.md +++ b/docs/docs/facts/population.md @@ -54,7 +54,6 @@ From our research, it is unclear how many people use sign languages. [^wfd]: World Federation of the Deaf. 2024. [Our Work](https://wfdeaf.org/our-work/). [^un-national-day]: United Nations. 2024. [International Day of Sign Languages](https://www.un.org/en/observances/sign-languages-day). -It is unclear how many people use sign languages. The European Centre for Modern Languages[^ecml] estimates that on average, deaf sign language users make up about 0.16% of the whole population in any given country, amounting to 12 million people worldwide. According to Ethnologue (via Derivation[^derivation]), there are 24 million native sign language users worldwide,