Android: Did Android 2.3.3 really full support 57 locales? /build/target/product/languages_full.mk only list 39 locales?

Android SDK official website announce that it supports 57 locales.(http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-2.3.3.html#locs)

But in source code /build/target/product/languages_full.mk, it only lists 39 locales are available. Why the two numbers of locales to support are not eqaul? And I checked the /res folder of every application in /packages/apps, most a开发者_如何学Gopplications have 41~43 locales strings.

I have spent some time to search the answer on Internet. Could anyone help me to clarify what is different about these numbers for support locales?

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Look at German:

Spoken in:

German, Austria (de_AT) German, Switzerland (de_CH) German, Germany (de_DE) German, Liechtenstein (de_LI)

But its still the same language