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2006-10-29 07:38:04 · 21 answers · asked by Umm Ali 6 in Society & Culture Languages

I am talking about around the world. English may not be the most spoken, but around the world it is the most popular. What comes after it around the world?

2006-10-29 07:43:34 · update #1

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Spanish is probably the most diverse language after English since it is spoken in several countries. Mandarine has the largest proportion of speakers in the world (around a billion speakers I think) though they are concentrated in mainly China. There are more Spanish speakers in the world than French speakers but French is used more than Spanish for business purposes.

2006-10-29 07:47:41 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

You have to define what do you mean by popular an most used, i.e. for what. And it is not the most used language around e world.

English is the language most used in internet and it is the language for doing business but that is it!

Mandarin as other people answered is the most spoken because of the number of persons who speaks it, but not world wide!

So spanish is the language most spoken world wide.

2006-10-29 08:45:11 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Mandarin Chinese is actually spoken by far more people than English, and, in any event, would have to be the next most popular language.

2006-10-29 07:42:03 · answer #3 · answered by Perplexed Music Lover 5 · 0 0

For actual number of speakers Chinese Mandarin is the most common language. For most widely used across the globe it is english. After English, is Spanish

2006-10-29 07:39:50 · answer #4 · answered by jleslie4585 5 · 0 0

Latin, without doubt. Lawyers, scientific gurus, scientists, historians, and so on. could all uncover this very handy, and for decades it was once the fundamental language. It's truthfully as an alternative functional when you get the styles down, and so much western languages are rooted in it besides, so studying different languages with a well Latin base is less complicated than with out. It's lovely robust!

2016-09-01 04:24:20 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

English isn't the most widely spoken language - it's Mandarin, followed by English.

2006-10-29 07:40:27 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

here's the top 10 languages spoken as of 1999
Chinese* (937,132,000)
Spanish (332,000,000)
English (322,000,000)
Bengali (189,000,000)
Hindi/Urdu (182,000,000)
Arabic* (174,950,000)
Portuguese (170,000,000)
Russian (170,000,000)
Japanese (125,000,000)
German (98,000,000)
French* (79,572,000)

I don't think much has changed since then, other than most countries now pursue English as a second language.
that doesn't mean, however, that it's the most widely spoken language, only that it has become the language of preference - especially for doing business.

2006-10-29 07:42:18 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Spanish

2006-10-29 07:39:35 · answer #8 · answered by ukerin 2 · 0 1

Spanish?

2006-10-29 07:46:11 · answer #9 · answered by lil_hem_n_va 4 · 0 0

I speak spanish as first language. I am learning english and now I am learning french at the moment !! I would like to learn german but there is not german in my small city

2006-10-29 07:41:35 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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