( scuttles plural & 3rd person present) ( scuttling present participle) ( scuttled past tense & past participle ) 1 verb When people or small animals scuttle somewhere, they run there with short quick steps. Two very small children scuttled away in front of them...
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.
While it is hard to pinpoint an exact figure of the number of people who speak Mandarin in the world, it is the most popular spoken language in the world's most populous c â¦ ountry, China. Mandarin in some form is spoken by about 960 million people there alone.