I didn't know whether to post this here or in the banking and finance forum - KIA please feel free to move it if necessary.
This is an odd question, maybe if anyone is some sort of analyst they could have a stab at answering it for me.
It is my understanding that approximately 800 million people in the world speak Mandarin (making it the world's most spoken language I think). I'm not sure if that figure is for "Mandarin as mother tongue" or for "people who can speak Mandarin". It is also my understanding that approximately 70 million people speak Cantonese (mainly Hong Kong, Guangdong, Macao, and many overseas Chinatowns around the world).
My somewhat politically incorrect question is this: what would be the relative net wealths of the 800 million Mandarin speaker versus the 70 million Cantonese speakers? Presumably the average Cantonese speaker would have a much higher net wealth than the average Mandarin speaker (merely because of the place in the world they live in). Anybody have any idea or even any way to try to estimate?
I do have a legitimate reason for asking this question.
The below resources may help a bit, but not much. They are just about numbers of people who speak a certain language.
http://www.krysstal.com/spoken.html
http://www2.ignatius.edu/faculty/turner/languages.htm
http://anthro.palomar.edu/language/language_1.htm
Ok, time to go to bed. Gotta get up and go to the gym in the morning
