Hi,
I want to know the Top Ten Languages spoken worldwide.
Starting from English, ..................................
What is the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th.......................... languages spoken.
thankx for your reply
2006-12-06 13:33:44 · 7 answers · asked by 123456 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
according to this website we have
1 Mandarin
2 English
3 Spanish
4 French
5 Portuguese
6 Russian
7 Japanese
8 German
9 Korean
10 Italian
2006-12-06 13:42:53 · answer #1 · answered by kl55000 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The top ten most spoken languages in the world:
1. Mandarin: 1 billion+
2. English: 508 million
3. Hindustani: 497 million
4. Spanish: 392 million
5. Russian: 277 million
6. Arabic: 266 million
7. Bengali: 211 million
8. Portuguese: 191 million
9. Malay - Indonesian: 159 million
10. French: 129 million
2006-12-06 13:44:57 · answer #2 · answered by Martha P 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
properly, even if a language is functional or no longer thoroughly relies upon on the position you should stay, what life type you choose to guide, or what type of occupation you should carry. in case you've been going to paintings at a inn in Western Europe, you'll likely locate languages like German, English and French so a lot extra functional than in case you've been residing in rural China, the position Mandarin, Cantonese and different countless chinese language dialects should be favourite. in case you've been going to gauge usefulness only on what number of human beings interior the international it can assist you to communicate to, then the record of languages through type of interior sight audio gadget is: a million: Mandarin 2. Hindustani 3. Spanish 4. English 5. Arabic 6. Portuguese 7. Bengali 8. Russian 9. jap 10. German for sure, there are important languages like French that are literally not spoken through a huge volume of interior sight audio gadget, yet are really prevalent as 2d languages, so for you to locate that extra functional compared to something like Bengali, operating example. You suggested it should be marvelous to understand if such languages are tricky for an English speaker to study. i ought to say that the Western ecu languages like Spanish, French, Italian and so on, are between the prime languages for an English speaker to study. once you get onto distant, unrelated languages like Mandarin and jap, issues get so a lot extra tricky, because there is not any similarity interior the vocabulary like there is with ecu languages, and sentence structure, idioms, cultural transformations, and so on, grow to be extra diverse to our personal (that is purely a generalization, considering that even some ecu languages have wildly diverse structures to English, yet you get the idea). wish that enables. Jim
2016-10-16 12:08:38 · answer #3 · answered by malinowski 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Japanese
english
spanish
french
italian
russiangerman
chinese
arabic
portugese
tagalo
2006-12-06 14:40:59 · answer #4 · answered by Alejandro G 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
espanol is 2
2006-12-06 13:36:11 · answer #5 · answered by G-Man 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Im not sure but these could be a few of them:spanish, french, russian, german, mandarin, japanese, tagalog...
2006-12-06 13:37:15 · answer #6 · answered by sHeLbY 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
english
spanish
french
i unno
2006-12-06 13:35:37 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋