( 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.
Mandarin, Chinaâs 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, Chinaâs 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.