What is the most commonly spoken lanuage in the world NOT named after a country?

Answer 1

Mandarin, spoken by over 800 million people.

Answer 2

AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH! PEOPLE NEVER READ THE QUESTIONS HERE! The queestion was "What is the most commonly spoken lanuage in the world NOT named after a country?" What part of "NOT named after a country" do you not not understand!!!??? English is obviously named after a country.
Whoever says English is either
a. really stupid or
b. REALLY obtuse!
I would say mandarin, thats its specific name. You might have thought originally "chinese" but china has like over 40 different dialects. So yes, Mandarin.
And whoever said Latin? What time are you from? Its a DEAD language!

Karis Lee- i thought it would be classed as a language of its own. Cantonese speakers cant understand a word of mandarin.
Maybe Persian then? The country of Persia no longer exists.

Answer 3

Javanese, 75 million speakers. It is the eleventh most spoken language in the world. The ten above it (numbers are for "first language" only):

1. Chinese (Mandarin), 873 million
2. Spanish, 322 million
3. English, 309 million
4. Hindi, 180 million
5. Portuguese, 177 million
6. Bengali, 171 million
7. Russian, 145 million
8. Japanese, 122 million
9. German, 95 million
10. Chinese (Wu), 77 million

All the above have a name associated with a country ("Hindi" connected with "India" and "Bengali" with "Bangladesh").

I would like to comment on the Mandarin/Chinese issue above. Mandarin, Cantonese, etc., are generally regarded as "dialects" of the Chinese language, although in a different aspect than British and American are different dialects of English. True, speakers of each language cannot understand each other in spoken language; however, the dialects are perfectly understandable in the written form (due to the form of the Chinese "alphabet"). A punishment doled out by one Chinese emperor for the crime of bribery was to send a speaker of one dialect to a region that spoke another, so that if he attempted it again, he could only do so in written form (and then be easily caught).

Answer 4

ok, i'm going to give you the top 3.

well, Chinese is the most commonly spoken language in the world, but it is named after China(Duh!). i think the second most commonly spoken language is English, and i'm not sure but i have a good guess that it's name after England. the third most spoken language.....my guess is Spanish, but it's named after Spain.

OK. I THINK THAT THERE ARE NO LANGUAGES IN THE WORLD THAT ARE NOT NAMED AFTER SOME COUNTRY.

PS- Mandarin Chinese is a form of CHINESE, and that language is named after CHINA, like i said before.

i hope i solved your question. if not, then look elsewhere. *-*

Answer 5

Mandarin is a good answer. The questioner asked for a SPOKEN language, not a written one. The Chinese dialects cannot be understood spoken, although the written language is the same. This is because the written Chinese language is not phonetic.

Answer 6

English.

English is the Official language of the Airline Industry and the most common Language spoken at he UN....after Translation.

English is taught in most schools in most countries in the world.

No Country is named: English.

Answer 7

Simple I would say : Mandarin country People's Republic of China

1.3 billions speakers at least

Answer 8

Farsi, it is a common language of the arabs.

Total numbers of speakers is high: over 40 million Farsi speakers (about 50% of Iran's population); over 7 million Dari Persian speakers in Afghanistan (25% of the population); and about 2 million Dari Persian speakers in Pakistan.

Answer 9

Probably Elven. Look at all those elves speaking it in Lord of the Rings!! Enough said.

Answer 10

If we're taking a poll, I'm with kl55000, Mandarin.