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Languages of the World


The population of the Earth tells more than 7000 languages. However, only a few dozen of them have official status in various countries and world. For example, in only 6 UN official languages: Arabic, English, Russian, French, Chinese and Spanish. Knowledge of several foreign languages is necessary today, especially if you work with foreign partners or your hobby requires knowledge of a foreign language. And if it is topical issue for you, I glad to show you the list of 10 most spoken languages in the

world according to web-based publication 'Ethnologue: Languages of the Worldin', 20th edition, which was released in 2017.





10. Punjabi 117 000 000

Punjabi is an Indo-Aryan language. It is the native language of about 117 million people, and is the 10th most spoken language in the world. Most of the people who speak this language live in the Punjab region of Pakistan and India. It is also widely spoken in Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Delhi. It is natively spoken by the majority of the population of Pakistan




9. Japanese 128 000 000

Despite the fact that Japanese is the official language only for one state, it is used by 25 different ethnic groups of Asian countries. The value of the Japanese language increases and the fact that Japan is the world's fourth largest power in terms of GDP.





8. Russian 171 000 000

Russian language for communication used by people in 33 countries around the world, including in 7 of them the language has an official status. 4.8 % of the sites on the Internet use the Russian language. Russian is one of the international languages of the world.




7. Bengali (Bangla) 189 000 000

Indo-European language that originated in the X-XII centuries, is official in the Republic of Bangladesh and is widely used in India.




6. Portuguese 202 000 000

Distribution of native population of a small Portuguese language contributed to colonization. Portuguese is the second language in Latin America. It is official in several African countries, for example, in Mozambique and Angola.

5. Arabic 264 000 000 — 267 000 000

The language has official status in Egypt, Israel, Algeria, Iraq, Libya, Lebanon, Kuwait, Jordan, Yemen, Morocco, Syria, Tunisia, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Senegal and many other Stranahan is the third complexity of the study, after the Chinese and Japanese. In the language of the Qur'an explain the millions of Muslims in all corners of the planet.





4. Hindi 260 000 000

This ancient language is the most common in India and enshrined in the Constitution as official along with 20 other languages.





3. English 339 000 000

One of the most common languages recognized as official in 59 countries. English is composed almost 57% of the web sites on the world wide web. Interestingly, about 70% of the words in the language is borrowed. This is one of the working languages of the UN. In English contains about 90% of all world information, and around 70% of scientific publications also available in this language. It is an international language and the most studied in the world. According to some forecasts, approximately 50 years old English speaking will be every second inhabitant of the planet.





2. Spanish 427 000 000

Is the official language in Spain, many Latin American countries and Equatorial Guinea. About 4.5% of the websites on the Internet use of the Spanish language. According to the official working language of the UN is most prevalent in the 31 state. Spanish is considered the easiest to study.





1. Mandarin (entire branch) 1 302 000 000


The most common language in the world is official in China, Taiwan and Singapore. Chinese is composed of 4.5% of the websites on the Internet. In the Chinese language 10 dialectical groups, and dialects so different that people from different parts of China sometimes cannot understand each other.





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