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Not disagreeing with the essence of what you said, but truthfully “L1” and “L2” is distinction without a difference because nobody can agree on what an L1 speaker or L2 speaker is and many people speak their putative L2 language better than their L1 language. Also many of the speaker counts on Wikipedia are very inaccurate and are just ballpark figures.



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