is SWAHILI among them?
2007-03-11 11:34:13 · 4 answers · asked by ogopasana 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
The data is from before 2000, but I doubt it's changed much.
1. Mandarin-Chinese
2. Spanish
3. English
4. Arabic (all dialects)
5. Hindi
6. Portuguese
7. Bengali
8. Russian
9. Japanese
10. German
11. Punjabi
No, Swahili is #100.
I listed the #11 as well, because Arabic only made top 10 when you count all dialects. Chinese is most spoken just by counting the Mandarin dialect alone.
Spanish is spoken in "most countries", but only at #2 in the world because of the giant population in China versus many smaller Spanish speaking countries in the Americas.
2007-03-11 11:46:59 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
1. english
2. french
3. spanish
4. chinese
5. russian
6. japanese
7. portugese
8. german
9. italian
10. hindi
these are the ten that i would guess because they're the most popular.
sorry noodles. when doing research, never use wikipedia. ok, so i did some additional research. and here it is, based on population
1. Chinese (Mandarin) 1,075,000,000
2. English 514,000,000
3. Hindustani1 496,000,000
4. Spanish 425,000,000
5. Russian 275,000,000
6. Arabic 256,000,000
7. Bengali 215,000,000
8. Portuguese 194,000,000
9. Malay-Indonesian 176,000,000
10. French 129,000,000
2007-03-11 18:39:14 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
farsi
2007-03-11 19:22:38 · answer #3 · answered by shahab j 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I AGREE WITH HER
2007-03-11 18:43:04 · answer #4 · answered by Pr!n(3ss @nn!3 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋