Most Popular Language
Posted by themahardhikagroup on August 14, 2009
Do you think english is the most spoken language on earth?
read this list I obtained from Ethnologue :
Most spoken language (the number of speaker is in million people)
1. Chinese 1213 speakers
2. Spanish 329
3. English 328
4. Arabic 221
5. Hindi 182
6. Bengali 181
7. Portuguese 178
8. Russian 144
9. Japanese 122
10. German 90.3
11. Javanese 84.6
16. French 67.8
41. Indonesian 23.2
Though, the speaker of english is still spread in the most country, i.e. 112 country..
for addition, below is the 6 languages used in UNO :
Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish (intergovernmental meetings and documents); the Secretariat uses two working languages, English and French.
wanna learn one of them?
