scuttle (third-person singular simple present scuttles, present participle scuttling, simple past and past participle scuttled) ( 1 transitive, nautical) To cut a hole or holes through the bottom, deck, or sides of (as of a ship), for any purpose.
One of the most commonly spoken languages in the world is French, which has an estimated 160 million speakers. Besides being the official language of France, it is commonly spoken in many other countries around the globe, such as Canada, Belgium, Cameroon, Haiti and Rwanda.
1 China is the most populous nation in the world, with 1.28 billion people. 2  One fifth of the planet speaks Chinese. 3  Mandarin Chinese is the mother tongue of over 873 million people, making it the most widely spoken first language in the world.