Jun 02, 2021 · When we count the top 10 most spoken languages according to the total number of people who speak them (whether or not the language is their mother tongue), eight of the 10 languages from the list above still make an appearance, but with a few major differences: English narrowly edges out Chinese for the top spot, Japanese and Punjabi lose their spots, and …

While Arabic may seem like its an ancient language, compared to all of the other languages on this list, its fairly modern. Arabic can only be attested to around the 1 st century CE, but the language may have emerged much earlier. Additionally, scholars believe that as a spoken language, Arabic only emerged around the 4 th century CE in what is now Syria.

Jun 03, 2021 · Let us read about the search and 10 most spoken languages in India, according to the 2011 census of languages. Shikha Goyal Updated: Jun 3, 2021 17:53 IST. 10 most spoken languages in India.

Top languages by population Ethnologue (2022, 25th edition). The following languages are listed as having 40 million or more total speakers in the 2022 edition of Ethnologue. Entries identified by Ethnologue as macrolanguages (such as Arabic, Persian, Malay, Pashto, and Chinese, encompassing all their respective varieties) are not included in this section.

Aug 30, 2021 · As one of the world's fifteen most spoken languages, Japanese is the most geographically concentrated language: over 124 million of its total speakers live in Japan and the Okinawa island group. The dense population of these areas contributes to its large number of speakers. 13. Korean. Native speakers (2019): 77.2 million

Mar 08, 2020 · The most spoken languages in the world span all corners of the globe and include Thai (spoken by 60.7 million people), Spanish (spoken by 548 million people), and Mandarin Chinese (spoken by 1.12 billion speakers).

Dec 08, 2020 · The World’s 10 Most Spoken Languages In today’s increasingly globalized world, having a shared means of communication—or an international language, rather—is more important than ever. With over 1.1 billion speakers worldwide, English is currently the closest we’ve come to a lingua franca, a common language that connects people from ...

The Ethnologue's most recent list of languages by total number of speakers – this is not a list of native speakers; Languages Spoken by More Than 10 Million People (Archived 2009-10-31) – Encarta list, based on data from Ethnologue, but some figures (e.g. for Arabic) widely vary from it

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Jan 01, 2021 · January 1, 2021. 1. 11359. Share on Facebook. Tweet on Twitter. At the time of colonisation in 1788, Australia was home to over 500 Indigenous languages. Since that time, many languages have been lost forever. This 2017 NAIDOC theme was our languages matter and we are compiling a list of the 10 most widely spoken Aboriginal languages.