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- The world's largest spoken language is Chinese (Mandarin). It is followed by English, Hindustani (Hindi and Urdu) and Spanish in the fourth place. The world's largest spoken language is Chinese (Mandarin). It is followed by English, Hindustani (Hindi and Urdu) and Spanish in the fourth place.
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Top 10 Most Spoken Languages in the World French is considered the most romantic language in the world. French is spoken in the tons of nations including Canada, Belgium, Cameroon, France, Rwanda and Haiti.French is spoken by more than 1 29 million people.
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World language Certain languages with greater than 100 million speakers, such as Japanese, are not listed. Japanese, although considered to be one of the most significant languages internationally, along with the listed world languages, it is not considered a world language per se.
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The 9 Most Widely Spoken Languages in the World Below is additional information about the most widely spoken languages in the world. Chinese: With more than 1.2 billion native speakers in the world, Chinese is the linguistic juggernaut of the list. (Ethnologue lumps Mandarin, Hakkan, Min Nan, Wu, and others into the collective category of “Chinese.”)
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The Three Easiest Languages for English Speakers to Learn There are over 176 million Portuguese speakers in the world, and these speakers are not just from Portugal and it's gigantic former colony, Brazil. Portuguese is the official language in 9 countries, including Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, and East Timor.
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Chinese Language Facts About 1.3 billion people (one-fifth of the world) speak some form of Chinese, making it the language with the most native speakers. The Chinese language, spoken in the form of Standard Mandarin, is the official language in the largest part of mainland China and Taiwan, one of the four in Singapore, and an official idiom of the United Nations.
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- Mandarin, China’s official tongue, is also the top language worldwide for business other than English, according to Bloomberg Rankings. Mandarin, spoken by 845 million people, scored highest in a ranking of languages, excluding English, based on business usefulness.andarin, China’s official tongue, is also the top language worldwide for business other than English, according to Bloomberg Rankings. Mandarin, spoken by 845 million people, scored highest in a ranking of languages, excluding English, based on business usefulness.
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- Here is a chart showing how to count in ten major foreign languages. The cardinal numbers are shown for Arabic, English, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Mandarin and Spanish.This table also shows the Rank of each language, in terms of the total number of world speakers.Mandarin is the most spoken language worldwide, followed by Hindi, then Spanish, then English in 4th place.his table also shows the Rank of each language, in terms of the total number of world speakers. Mandarin is the most spoken language worldwide, followed by Hindi, then Spanish, then English in 4th place.
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- Arabic is one of the world's great languages. Its graceful script, magnificent style and rich vocabulary give the language a unique character and flavour. Arabic is the largest member of the Semitic language family, which also includes languages like Hebrew and Aramaic.
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Spanish: speak the language of 400 million people Spanish: speak the language of 400 million people. In the recent Languages for the Future report, Spanish was highlighted as the most important language for people in the UK to learn. In the third of our series of posts on the ten languages in the report, the British Council's Catherine Mansfield explains why.
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World Languages Europe has the smallest number of languages and the second-largest number of speakers after Asia, accounting for 26.1% of all language speakers in the world. Unlike Asia, the majority of Europe’s languages have a substantial number of speakers. As a result, Europe has the largest median and mean of all world areas.
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Proportional Map of the World's Largest Languages Proportional Map of the World's Largest Languages. June 8, 2015. Alberto Lucas Lopéz. There are 7 billion people on earth and about 7000 languages, but more than half of the world's population speaks one of just 23 languages.
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- The CIA World Factbook tells us that Mandarin Chinese is the world's most widely spoken native language with an estimated 12.44% of the earth's population having it as a mother tongue. Spanish is second at 4.85%, and English third at 4.83%.Arabic and Hindi round out the top five at 3.25% and 2.68% respectively.nglish it is not the most widely spoken mother tongue in the EU -- German takes that title, with it being the native language of Germany and Austria.
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Coalition, Conquest, and Conversion A History of the Spanish Language, 2nd ed. New York: Cambridge University Press. Today, the Spanish language is used by approximately 332 million speakers, and it is second only to Chinese as the most commonly spoken language in the world.
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Indonesian language Most Widely Spoken Languages in the World. Chinese tops the list of most popular world languages, with over one billion speakers. English trails in third place, with 335 million speakers. This data represents first-language speakers.
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- Index of languages by language family. There are between 6,000 and 7,000 languages currently spoken in the world. Ethnologue lists 7,097 language, of which 3,947 have fewer than 10,000 speakers. By end of the 21st century it is thought that between 50-90% of all languages will be extinct.
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The Chinese language The Chinese language. The Chinese language is said to be the most widely spoken native language in the world. With over a billion native speakers, it truly has proven in recent years to be an international language of business, slowly but surely gaining ground on English.
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- with the expansion of the former Spanish Empire (Spain), the language spread around the world, it is official language in 21 countries (ISO), spoken in 44 countries (E); Mexico contains the largest population of Spanish speakers.
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- Arabic is one of the world's great languages. Its graceful script, magnificent style and rich vocabulary give the language a unique character and flavour. Arabic is the largest member of the Semitic language family, which also includes languages like Hebrew and Aramaic. Arabic is also an important language in many countries bordering on the Arab World, like Mali, Niger, Chad, Eritrea, Djibouti, Ethiopia and Somalia. 2  There are also Arabic-speaking populations in parts of southern Turkey and southwestern Iran.
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The 10 Most Spoken Languages In The World 8. Russian. With roughly 170 million native speakers as of 2010, Russian is the eighth most spoken language in the world. Famed for its inscrutable grammar and quite lovely Cyrillic script, it remains one of the six languages spoken in the UN, and produced the likes of Dostoyevsky, Nabokov, Chekhov, Goyal, Tolstoy and Pushkin.
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- Here are the top 6 international business languages that are predicted to have a great impact on the future business market: Mandarin, the official language of China and Taiwan, is by far the most widely spoken language of the world, surpassing English in terms of number of speakers, in a 2:1 ratio.
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The 10 Most Spoken Languages In The World You might be surprised. Determining which languages are spoken most in the world is a more difficult task than you might imagine. We can say with some confidence that Mandarin, English, Spanish and Arabic will make an appearance, and roughly in what order. But there are some surprises too.
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How many languages are there in the world? The Answer: There are roughly 6,500 spoken languages in the world today. However, about 2,000 of those languages have fewer than 1,000 speakers. The most popular language in the world is Mandarin Chinese. There are 1,213,000,000 people in the world that speak that language. You might also like our list of the most widely spoken languages in the world.
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- Lionbridge Tops List of World’s 100 Largest Language Service Providers for Fourth Consecutive Year. WALTHAM, Mass. – July 15, 2015 – Lionbridge Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: LIOX) has once again been named the world’s largest language service company by Common Sense Advisory (CSA), an independent market research firm.
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- Languages of the World. with an updated Top 20 list of the most widely spoken languages by First language speakers. Mega languages around the World - List of Chinese, English, Spanish, Arabic, Portuguese, and French speaking countries. Official and National Languages of the World by Continent:
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10 Facts About the Spanish Language With 329 million native speakers, Spanish ranks as the world's No. 2 language in terms of how many people speak it as their first language, according to Ethnologue. It is slightly ahead of English (328 million) but far behind Chinese (1.2 billion).