which is the most spoken language in world???????
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everyone assumes it to be english... but trust me its not!! its mandarin..
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It should be Mandarin. Most of the countries with Chinese people use this language as their official language. Also, it is the language used by most native speakers next to Hindi.\n\nOnce you learnt Mandarin, you will be able to learn other Chinese dialects like Cantonese very easily.
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how did you come to the conclusion that Sanskrit and Tamil are superior and hindi.\n\nAll indian languages are equal none are superior and none are inferior.For that matter all languages spoken in the world.\n\nHindi was rightfully elected as the national languages through a democratic vote.Many contenders were hindi, tamil, telaguect.Hindi just got more votes.Thus it is the national language.
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English is the offical language. Other languages are:\n\nHausa\nYoruba\nIgbo (Ibo)\nFulani
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_speakers
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There would probably be three official languages: English, Spanish, and Chinese.  I believe they are the most-spoken languages on the planet.  I could be wrong, though.
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The Summer Institute for Linguistics (SIL) Ethnologue Survey (1999) lists the following as the top languages by population:\n(number of native speakers in parentheses)\n\nChinese (937,132,000) \nSpanish (332,000,000) \nEnglish (322,000,000) \nBengali (189,000,000) \nHindi/Urdu (182,000,000) \nArabic (174,950,000) \nPortuguese (170,000,000) \nRussian (170,000,000) \nJapanese (125,000,000) \nGerman (98,000,000) \nFrench (79,572,000) \n\n\nThe following list is from Dr. Bernard Comrie’s article for the Encarta Encyclopedia (1998):\n(number of native speakers in parentheses)\n\nMandarin Chinese (836 million) \nHindi (333 million) \nSpanish (332 million) \nEnglish (322 million) \nBengali (189 million) \nArabic (186 million) \nRussian (170 million) \nPortuguese (170 million) \nJapanese (125 million) \nGerman (98 million) \nFrench (72 million)
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There is no one world language (even Esperanto did not become popular). Some of the commercially important languages (apart from English) are German (many parts of Europe), French (many parts of Europe and Africa), Spanish (some parts of Europe, Latin America and even US), Chinese and Japanese. You can learn one of these based on which region you would want to work in and also which is being taught near your place.
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Most Widely Spoken Languages\nin the World\nLanguageApprox. number\nof speakers\n 1. Chinese (Mandarin)1,075,000,000\n 2. English514,000,000\n 3. Hindustani496,000,000\n 4. Spanish425,000,000\n 5. Russian275,000,000\n 6. Arabic256,000,000\n 7. Bengali215,000,000\n 8. Portuguese194,000,000\n 9. Malay-Indonesian176,000,000\n10. French129,000,000
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Chinese. China is the most populated country in the world and will continue to grow exponentially. If you have any interest in the business world, knowing Chinese will be an amazing asset.\n\nIt is THE one language to learn - don't bother with issues like ease or how cool Japanese aname is. They're not relevant to the question.
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French! It's the language of love, plus everyone I know want's to learn to speak Spanish. Spanish is a beautiful language, however, I've had some... not so good experiences trying to learn to speak it. Plus,I just was to mix it up a bit you know?
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Actually, I spend quite a bit of time in Cancun every couple of years and in that area, the most spoken language is English.\n\nGo figure!
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well its not easy for a lot of people to just pick up a single language\n\nhowever, it will be simplified eventually; only 8 major languages will remain from the 200 there are currently
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The top four, according to the Ethnologue database --\n1) Papua New Guinea - 830 languages listed (820 living, 10 extinct)\nhttp://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=PG\n\n2) India - 428 languages listed (415 living, 13 extinct)\nhttp://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=IN\n\n3) Mexico - 298 languages listed (291 living, 7 extinct)\nhttp://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=MX\n\n4) China -- 236 languages listed (235 living, 1 extinct)\nhttp://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=China\n\nInfoplease seems generally to concur, listing 715 indigineous languages for Papua New Guinea\nhttp://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0107875.html\ncompare: http://geography.about.com/library/faq/blqzpapualanguages.htm\n\n\nThere is a bit of confusion, though, since Infoplease also speaks of India having "1,600+ dialects"\nhttp://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0107629.html\nCompare wikipedia's "number of mother tongues in India is as high as 1,652" (though there is no further explanation given)\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_India \n\nBased solely on this, one might argue for India.   But the problem here is that "dialect" is used in many different ways, and the statistics given for India are not explained, nor are other countries compared on the same basis.   Since Ethnologue, which is highly regarded, uses one consistent approach to all the countries, I believe it is wisest to go with their totals, according to which PAPUA NEW GUINEA ranks first.
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Spanish. \n\nIt has the 3rd most speakers in the world, behind Mandarin Chinese and English, and is spoken in 20(official languages?) countries.\n\nHistorically, the spread of Russian began during the cold war, by imperialism of the Soviet Union throughtout Asia and Europe. It is spoken in 16 countries, most of them formerly part of the USSR.
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Definitely Chinese (Mandarin, of course). Why ?\nIt's spoken by more than 1/3 of the world's population. \nChina is an emerging super-power. \nChina has been & will be US important economic partner.\nMandarin is spoken my most Asian countries (Mandarin is the national language of Singapore & Taiwan; it's also popular in Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand, S. Korea...)\nIt's being implemented in some US schools districts\n(such as New york, Los Angeles, Chicago, Seattle...).\nIt's believed to be the language of the future.
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Along with Spanish, Portuguese is one of the top ten most spoken languages in the world.  French is at the end of the list with Portuguese at number eight.\n\nYes, portuguese is an incredible language.  If you are a native English speaker with knowledge of Spanish, then you are fine tuned for picking up Portuguese and swallowing it whole!!!\n\nI love portuguese, there are various portuguese communities in the US (New Jersey for example), and yes Brazil is South America's largest and most economically promising country.  They are projected to be increasing for awhile.\n\nBrazilians are such incredibly warm people, you'll have a great time learning Portuguese\n\nIn high school there are always Brazilian exchange students.  the poor brazilians would love to come to US, but it is such a long way.  there certainly won't be an influx of Brazilians comparable to the mexican influx, but still, if you like travel and languages and think you might find yourself in south america or africa then portuguese is the way to go.