World's population claims one of only 10 languages as their
mother tongue. So what are the top 10 languages of the world? You might be
surprised.
These are the most beautiful spoken languages in the world.
- Chinese
- Spanish
- English
- Hindi
- Arabic
- Portuguese
- Bengali
- Russian
- Japanese
- Punjabi
Languages in China
There are as many as 292 living languages in China. The
languages most commonly spoken belong to the Sinitic branch of the Sino-Tibetan
language family, which contains Mandarin (spoken by 70% of the population).
Standard Mandarin, a variety of Mandarin based on the
Beijing dialect, is the official national language of China and is used as a
lingua franca in the country between people of different linguistic
backgrounds.
Spanish Language
Spanish is a Romance language that originated in the Castile
region of Spain and today has hundreds of millions of native speakers in the
Americas and Spain. It is a global language and the world's second-most spoken
native language, after Mandarin Chinese.
Spanish is one of the six official languages of the United
Nations. It is also used as an official language by the European Union.
English Language
English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in
early medieval England and eventually became a global lingua franca. English is
the largest language by number of speakers and the third most-spoken native
language in the world, after Standard Chinese and Spanish.
Hindi Language
Hindi Language is a standardised and Sanskritised register
of the Hindustani language. Hindi, written in the Devanagari script, is one of the
official languages of India, along with the English language. Hindi is the
fourth most-spoken first language in the world, after Mandarin, Spanish and
English. Alongside Urdu as Hindustani, it is the third most-spoken language in
the world, after Mandarin and English.
Arabic Language
Arabic at around 250 million native speakers. But this is
another instance of numbers not telling the full tale: Arabic, Like Chinese, is
so vasty different in its respective dialects as to be effectively A number of
languages, grouped as one of convenience.
Portuguese Language
Portuguese is a Western Romance language originating in the
Iberian Peninsula. It is the sole official language of Portugal. Portuguese is
part of the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several dialects of Vulgar
Latin in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia and the County of Portugal, and has
kept some Celtic phonology and lexicon.
Bengali Language
Bengali is an Indo-Aryan language primarily spoken by the
Bengalis in South Asia. It is the official and most widely spoken language of
Bangladesh and second most widely spoken of the 22 scheduled languages of
India, behind Hindi.
Russian Language
Russian is the largest native language in Europe and the
most geographically widespread language in Eurasia. It is the most widely
spoken of the Slavic languages, with 144 million speakers in Russia, Ukraine
and Belarus.
Japanese Language
Japanese language is an East Asian language spoken by about
128 million people, primarily in Japan, where it is the national language.
Japanese has been grouped with language families such as Ainu, Austroasiatic,
and the now-discredited Altaic, but none of these proposals has gained
widespread acceptance.
Punjabi Language
Punjabi language is an Indo-Aryan language with more than 10
crore (100 million) native speakers around the world and especially in the
Indian subcontinent. It is the native language of the Punjabi people, an ethnic
group of the cultural region called the Punjab, which encompasses northwest
India and eastern Pakistan.
Top 10 Languages by Total Number of Speakers
1. English 1.121 billion total speakers
2. Chinese 1.107 billion total speakers
3. Hindi 534.2 million total speakers
4. Spanish 512.9 million total speakers
5. French 284.9 million total speakers
6. Arabic 273.9 million total speakers
7. Russian 265 million total speakers
8. Bengali 261.8 million total speakers
9 9. Portuguese 236.5 million total speakers
10. Indonesian 198.4 million total speakers
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