The top 10 most spoken languages in the world
1. Chinese (Mandarin)= 1,000,000,000 +
2. English = 508,000,000
3. Hindustani (Hindi and Urdu)= 497,000,000
4. Spanish = 392,000,000
5. Russian = 277,000,000
6. Arabic = 246,000,000
7. Bengali = 211,000,000
8. Portuguese = 191,000,000
9. Malay-Indonesian = 159,000,000
10. French = 129,000,000
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posted by Life Records at 5/02/2006
12 Comments:
wow... good to know, thanks!
12:08 AM
Well those stats would make you wonder why we are not teaching chinese in the country. It seems like that would be the most important language to learn.
12:10 AM
Go english go!
9:02 AM
Ahh Mandarin the language of business. I'm Filipino by blood, but English and French raised. I think it's too late for me to learn another language; especially a language that has more than a thousand characters.
Yikes!
7:32 PM
are they real these statistics?
2:00 PM
You need to distinguish between first and second language speakers, and between levels of fluency, to make these numbers meaningful.
English may be the world's second language, but that ranges from the Indian hotelier who knows a few dozen words and phrases to communicate with tourists, through the German businessman who can negotiate deals in English but can't discuss the weather, to the Swiss polyglot who speaks 12 languages perfectly.
10:25 AM
Vamos español ya casi llegamos!!!! :D
8:47 PM
why isn't Japanese in the list?
6:41 PM
its greattoknow that
7:57 PM
it looks like the figure for English speakers may be primary speakers only. that would grossly understate the total number of speakers
7:21 PM
BULLSHIT!!!!!!!!
you "americans" think your the shit. This list is so totally wrong, english is about the 4th most talked language, chinese is the first and spanish is the second.
10:10 AM
you could put in the percents to better help peaple understand the figures.
8:00 AM
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