Answer prose round 1: the locale rule lives once in the decision, a locale ships where the most speak it, and each source says what it holds
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is. A template that prints a literal brace writes `{{` or `}}`, and the goal allows that. Valid
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while `{{` and `}}` are the template syntax's only escape.
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## The locales are Ethnologue 2026's ten largest languages, each in the country with most of its speakers, and the Nordic countries
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## The locales are Ethnologue 2026's ten most-spoken languages, each in the country with the most speakers of it, and the Nordic countries
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2026-10-11, Lilleman auf Larv. Serves goal 2.1. [The Ethnologue
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200](https://www.ethnologue.com/insights/ethnologue200/) for 2026 ranks languages by first-
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and second-language speakers together: English, Mandarin Chinese, Hindi, Spanish, Standard
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Arabic, French, Bengali, Portuguese, Indonesian and Urdu. Russian is eleventh. Each ships in
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the country holding most of its speakers: `en_US`, `zh_CN`, `hi_IN`, `es_MX`, `ar_EG`,
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`fr_FR`, `bn_BD`, `pt_BR`, `id_ID` and `ur_PK`. The Nordic countries are `sv_SE`, `nb_NO`,
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`da_DK`, `fi_FI` and `is_IS`. Before either ships, `todo.md` item 209 confirms Egypt and
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`todo.md` item 214 Pakistan from Ethnologue's country pages. Valid until Ethnologue's
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ranking changes its ten.
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Arabic, French, Bengali, Portuguese, Indonesian and Urdu. Each ships in the country with the
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most speakers of it: `en_US`, `zh_CN`, `hi_IN`, `es_MX`, `ar_EG`, `fr_FR`, `bn_BD`, `pt_BR`,
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`id_ID` and `ur_PK`. The Nordic countries are `sv_SE`, `nb_NO`, `da_DK`, `fi_FI` and
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`is_IS`. Each locale carries goal 2.2's categories, and its `address` reads its country's
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`geo/` tree by reference. Egypt and Pakistan are not yet confirmed: `todo.md` item 209 and
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`todo.md` item 214 check each against Ethnologue's country pages before it ships, and record
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the result here. Valid until Ethnologue's ranking changes its ten.
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