what is the most spoken languages in the world?

Question

apart from madarin

Answer 1

Russian at 5th place
Russia's vast geographic reach and populous nation makes it sit at number 5 with 275 million speakers. But given the low life expectancy among men there and Arabic's accelerated growth, Russia looks like it will slip in ranking over the next decade.

Number 4

Spanish
With anywhere from 350 to 400 million speakers, many lists have Spanish surpassing English, and by most standards, that is right. The official language in just over 20 nations including Andorra, Belize, Colombia, Cuba, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Spain, U.S., and Venezuela, Spanish weighs in at numero cuatro .

Number 3

English
The "lowest common denominator," if one were to exist, English is the universal language with 500 million speakers worldwide. The language is officially spoken in over 50 countries, a record. Examples include: Australia, Brunei, Cameroon, Canada, Fiji, New Zealand, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, South Africa, U.K., and U.S., not to mention many Caribbean states.

Number 2

Hindi/Urdu
Ironically, Hindi and Urdu are essentially the same language. In Pakistan, Hindi is modified and written in Arabic script, whereas in India, it is written in the Devanagari script and called Hindi. Combined, 600 million human beings speak Hindi. While every expert would assert that India's population will surpass China's, chances are that there will always be more Mandarin-speaking people because English is widely spoken in India, but not in China.

Number 1

Mandarin Chinese
Mandarin is spoken by over 1 billion people; making it the most widely spoken language on Earth. Besides China, Mandarin is spoken in Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mongolia, Philippines, Singapore, South Africa, Taiwan, and Thailand. Mandarin is fairly sophisticated because it can be spoken in four tones. But once you begin, you'll have a billion people to chat with...
It is interesting to note that both German and Japanese are spoken by over 100 million people as well, but failed to register on the Top 10 list.

Resources:
www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0774735.html
www.soyouwanna.com/site/toptens/languages/languages.html
Top 10 of Everything 2002, by Russell Ash

Answer 2

That would be some Indian language... I don't know if it is Hindi or Hindoo -- I was going to say Chinese which includes bei jing or mandarin. I think English might be third or forth. This has nothing to do with the ranking of languages. I just want to say that there are different kinds of languages: English would be an example of a stress language. I know it sure stress me out sometimes! Chinese, on the other hand, is a tonal language. Being monosyllabic in nature, it soon runs out of sounds to use and so these are enhanced by adding a tone or 'no tone' to each syllable or word. I wonder how English or another stress language sounds to Chinese ears?

Answer 3

In addition to madarin, it would be one of the Chinese languages--English and Spanish rank around 7 and 8.

Oops I just checked out innovator's answer- I stand corrected.

Answer 4

English

Answer 5

Probably Hindu or some other Indian language, English is probably spoken in more places than any other language but in terms of numbers of people ther are many more Hindi, and Cantonese and Mandarin speakers than there are English,French or Russian speakers. The joke answer would have been Gibberish, natchurallee

Answer 6

The number of people speaking each language is debateable, but the top five spoken languages and approximate numbers are: -

1. Chinese (Mandarin) - 1,050,000,000 to 1,075,000,000
2. English - 510,000,000 to 515,000,000
3. Hindustani - 490,000,000 to 500,000,000
4. Spanish - about 425,000,000
5. Russian - 250,000,000 to 275,000,000

Answer 7

In complete agreement with Ian G.
Bad language or foul language is probably the most used in the world.

Answer 8

Mandarin with like 1 billion speakers
english is #2 and spanish is #4

Answer 9

English and Spanish

Answer 10

Hello,

Apart from Mandarin, It would have to be English and Spanish would be number 2.

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