I dont mean which languages learn more the people, i mean about the numbers of natives from the language, which are the 5 languages whit the biggest number of natives in the world??? (people who have them as their firts language or mother language)
From the most to the less about that 5 that you think or know.
2006-09-20 09:47:08 · 24 answers · asked by Methos99 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
I am sure it's:
1.Chinese (937,132,000)
2.Spanish (332,000,000)
3.English (322,000,000)
4.Bengali (189,000,000)
5.Hindi/Urdu (182,000,000)
6.Arabic (174,950,000) (follows closely)
(Number of NATIVE speakers in paranthesis)
If you want to check it out for yourself and if you need more info, go here:
http://www2.ignatius.edu/faculty/turner/languages.htm
2006-09-20 09:50:16 · answer #1 · answered by hermanita 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Summer Institute for Linguistics (SIL) Ethnologue Survey (1999) lists the following as the top languages by population:
(number of native speakers in parentheses)
Chinese* (937,132,000)
Spanish (332,000,000)
English (322,000,000)
Bengali (189,000,000)
Hindi/Urdu (182,000,000)
* "Chinese" is composed of the total of the following languages/dialects:
Mandarin 836,000,000
Xiang 36,015,000
Hakka 34,000,000
Gan 20,580,000
Minbei 10,537,000
2006-09-20 09:50:48 · answer #2 · answered by tericee 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
English, Spanish, Arabic, Hindi and French
2006-09-20 09:48:46 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most common Languages of the world today & # of people who speak the languages.
1. Chinese (Mandarin)1,075,000,000
2. English514,000,000
3. Hindustani496,000,000
4. Spanish425,000,000
5. Russian275,000,000
6. Arabic 256,000,000
7. Bengali215,000,000
8. Portuguese194,000,000
9. Malay-Indonesian176,000,000
10. French129,000,000
2006-09-20 09:48:49 · answer #4 · answered by Shayna 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
English, French, Russian, Chinese, Spanish
2006-09-20 09:51:09 · answer #5 · answered by jwilson704 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
English, French, Spanish, Arabic and Sign language....and not in this exact order
2006-09-20 09:49:16 · answer #6 · answered by dat_gurl_dot03 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I would say Mandarin, Spanish, English, French, and Portuguese.
2006-09-20 09:49:34 · answer #7 · answered by want it bad 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Chinese, English, Spanish, French, German
2006-09-20 11:13:53 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
# Indo-European languages (~48% of mankind)
# Sino-Tibetan languages (~23%)
# Niger-Congo languages (~10%)
# Afro-Asiatic languages (~5%)
# Austronesian languages (~3%)
2006-09-20 09:49:01 · answer #9 · answered by finaldx 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Um, well Chinese (which ever form) is probably #1
Err, and then Urdu probably #2
And then Spanish #3
English #4
And #5, I have no clue, probably an African language.
2006-09-20 09:50:44 · answer #10 · answered by Locomotive 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋