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| See The Most Spoken Languages In The World by mmb(m): 8:00am On Aug 12, 2019 |
1. Mandarin Chinese (1.1 billion speakers) Number of native speakers: 897 million Number of non-native speakers: 193 million Total speakers: 1.09 billion Name in the language itself: 普通话 (Putonghua) Language family: Sino-Tibetan Related to: Cantonese, Tibetan, Burmese 2. English (983 million speakers) Number of native speakers: 371 million Number of non-native speakers: 611 million Total number of speakers: 983 million Language-family: Germanic, a sub-family of Indo-European. Related to: German, Dutch, Frisian 3. Hindustani (544 million speakers) Number of native speakers: 329 million Number of non-natives: 215 million Total number of speakers: 544 million Language family: Indo-Aryan, a sub-family of Indo-European. Related to: Bengali, Punjabi, Marathi, Kashmiri, Nepali 4. Spanish (527 million speakers) Number of native speakers: 436 million Number of non-native speakers: 91 million Total number of speakers: 527 million Language family: Romance, a sub-family of Indo-European. Related to: French, Portuguese, Italian, Romanian 5. Arabic (422 million speakers) Number of native speakers: 290 million Number of non-natives: 132 million Total number of speakers: 422 million Language family: Semitic, a sub-family of Afro-Asiatic. Related to: Hebrew, Amharic, and Aramaic. 6. Malay (281 million speakers) Number of native speakers: 77 million Number of non-natives: 204 million Total number of speakers: 281 million Language family: Austronesian Related to: Javanese, Tagalog 7. Russian (267 million speakers) Number of native speakers: 153 million Number of non-natives: 113 million Total number of speakers: 267 million Language family: East Slavic, a sub-family of Indo-European Related to: Ukrainian, Belarusian 8. Bengali (261 million speakers) Number of native speakers: 242 million Number of non-natives: 19 million Total number of speakers: 261 million Language family: Indo-Aryan, a sub-family of Indo-European. Related to: Hindustani, Punjabi, Marathi, Kashmiri, Nepali 9. Portuguese (229 million speakers) Number of native speakers: 218 million Number of non-natives: 11 million Total number of speakers: 229 million Language family: Romance, a sub-branch of Indo-European. Related to: French, Spanish, Italian, Romanian 10. French (229 million speakers) Number of native speakers: 76 million Number of non-natives: 153 million Total number of speakers: 229 million Language family: Romance, a sub-branch of Indo-European. Related to: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Romanian 11. Hausa (150 Million speakers) Number of native speakers: 85 million Number of non-natives: 65 million Total number of speakers: 150 million Language family: Chadic, a sub-family of Afroasiatic Related to: Ron, Bole. More distantly: Arabic, Somali 12. Punjabi Number of native speakers: 148 million Number of non-natives: negligible Total number of speakers: 148 million Language family: Indo-Aryan, a sub-family of Indo-European. Related to: Hindustani, Bengali, Marathi, Kashmiri, Nepali 13. Telugu Number of native speakers: 80 million Number of non-natives: 12 million Total number of speakers: 92 million Language family: Dravidian Related to: Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada 14. Javanese Number of native speakers: 84 million Number of non-natives: negligible Total number of speakers: 84 million Language family: Austronesian Related to: Malay, Tagalog Source: https://www.fluentin3months.com/most-spoken-languages/ 2 Likes |
| Re: See The Most Spoken Languages In The World by ThisisBuhari: 8:01am On Aug 12, 2019 |
One of the blunders of the Colonialist was for not making Hausa the Official Language of Nigeria. I weep for Nigeria. Lalasticlala, dont you think so. 5 Likes |
| Re: See The Most Spoken Languages In The World by lebron7(m): 8:02am On Aug 12, 2019 |
Nigerian Youths should stop the folly/foolishness of TRIBALLY fighting each other online/offline and fight the real enemy: the corrupt public/political office holders turning them against each other and their evil ideologies! They have been using the divide and rule strategy against us! Great Youths, Unite against those robbing you and your generation yet unborn of a Beautiful life & future!! Kindly repost & share on every social media platform till every youth wakes up!!! We can and should do this TOGETHER 6 Likes 2 Shares |
| Re: See The Most Spoken Languages In The World by madmohamed(m): 8:04am On Aug 12, 2019 |
mmb:Swahili is more than English 2 Likes 1 Share |
| Re: See The Most Spoken Languages In The World by drips8(m): 8:13am On Aug 12, 2019 |
The English language was the only good thing from colonization 1 Like |
| Re: See The Most Spoken Languages In The World by donbachi(m): 8:16am On Aug 12, 2019 |
ThisisBuhari:who goes u |
| Re: See The Most Spoken Languages In The World by Jetrue3oo: 9:41am On Aug 12, 2019 |
Yoruba is not in the list why? And is spoken in 5 good countries Nigeria, Brazil and so on 2 Likes 1 Share |
| Re: See The Most Spoken Languages In The World by Nobody: 9:42am On Aug 12, 2019 |
madmohamed: madmohammed, Swahili is more than what  ! Asides East Africa and one or two other spots in Africa where else is Swahili spoken? Okay, combine the populations of Uganda, Rwanda Tanzania and Kenya{where Swahili enjoys official language status} with that of Congo and Somalia; Is that up to 900 million people? My estimate, Swahili has far less than a hundred million speakers all together. That's just about 7-10% of the population of English-speakers the world over. 3 Likes |
| Re: See The Most Spoken Languages In The World by Nobody: 9:59am On Aug 12, 2019 |
mmb: Of course, it's got to be Mandarin. At least 7-8 of these languages have their origins in Asia. Mostly South and South-East Asia. Mandarin, Hindustani, Malay, Bengali, Punjabi, Telugu. It's crazy men... 1 Like |
| Re: See The Most Spoken Languages In The World by AndroBlaze: 11:02am On Aug 12, 2019 |
Swahili is more widely spoken than Hausa. Also, their grouping of native and non-native speakers for English and Portuguese is quite dubious. Rubbish site. |
| Re: See The Most Spoken Languages In The World by yungsmart(m): 11:32am On Aug 12, 2019 |
Abeg now who are all this psycho people quoting all the whole text I fit curse you people ooooo. |
| Re: See The Most Spoken Languages In The World by BlackfireX: 12:41pm On Aug 12, 2019 |
Igbo language should be in the top 10 |
| Re: See The Most Spoken Languages In The World by gtown: 1:21pm On Aug 12, 2019 |
where is India? |
| Re: See The Most Spoken Languages In The World by Nobody: 1:44pm On Aug 12, 2019 |
gtown: :O Who told you that there is a language known as "India" India has two main official languages- Hindi. Hindi and English{to an extent}. Hindi is a variant of the Hindustani language which is number 3 on this list. |
| Re: See The Most Spoken Languages In The World by franchasng: 2:42pm On Aug 12, 2019 |
lebron7:it is tribalism that birthed the corrupt leaders, so we must first tackle tribalism first. 1 Like |
| Re: See The Most Spoken Languages In The World by lebron7(m): 2:57pm On Aug 12, 2019 |
franchasng:Read well before mentioning me |
| Re: See The Most Spoken Languages In The World by yarimo(m): 3:59pm On Aug 12, 2019 |
11. HAUSA so IGBO no they their? I laugh in tiv language huhuhegagaga  |
| Re: See The Most Spoken Languages In The World by demolinka(m): 4:01pm On Aug 12, 2019 |
Yorùbá suppose dey there na... spoken in naija, Benin, Togo, Ghana, Cuba, USA, Brazil, etc |
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