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Top 10 Spoken Languages in the World

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Top 10 Spoken Languages in the World

Language is perhaps the most important part for humans, as this is only carrier to communicate with other, share emotions, thought and many more things. There is approx thousand languages existence all over the world. Mandarin Chinese is top most language in the list of most popular Spoken Languages in the World. List of top 10 most spoken language in the world as follows:

Mandarin
Rank: 01
Approx Number of People Speak: 845 million people.
Primary Countries the language is spoken: Mongolia, Philippines, Brunei, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, S. Africa, Taiwan, Thailand.
About: Mandarin is a group of related varieties of Chinese spoken across most of northern and southwestern China.

Spanish
Rank: 02
Approx Number of People Speak: 329 million people.
Primary Countries the language is spoken: Dominican Rep., Ecuador, El Salvador, Eq. Guinea, Algeria, Andorra, Argentina, Belize, Benin, Bolivia, Chad, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Guatemala, Honduras, Ivory Coast, Madagascar, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Spain, Togo, Tunisia, United States, Mali, Mexico, Morocco, Nicaragua, Niger, Uruguay, Venezuela.
About: Spanish is also called Castilian. It is a Romance language that originated in Castile, a region of Spain. Approximately 406 million people speak Spanish as a native language, 60 million speakers as a second language, and 20 million students as a foreign language.

English
Rank: 03
Approx Number of People Speak: 328 million people.
Primary Countries the language is spoken: Guyana, India, Ireland, Israel, Lesotho, Liberia, Malaysia, Micronesia, Namibia, Nauru, New Zealand, Palau, Australia, Belize, Botswana, Brunei, Cameroon, Canada, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Fiji, The Gambia, Ghana,  Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Somalia, S. Africa, Suriname, Swaziland, Tonga, U.K., U.S., Vanuatu, Zimbabwe, many Caribbean states, Samoa, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Solomon Islands,  Zambia.
About: English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now the most widely used language in the world.

Hindi- Urdu
Rank: 04
Approx Number of People Speak: 242 million people.
Primary Countries the language is spoken: Pakistan, S. Africa, Thailand, Nepal, Afghanistan, India, Mauritius, Singapore, Uganda.
About: The Hindi–Urdu controversy is an ongoing dispute—dating back to the 19th century—regarding the status of Hindi and Urdu as a single language. There are actually two official variants of Hindi- Urdu: Standard Hindi and Standard Urdu, both of which are virtually indistinguishable from other. 

Arabic
Rank: 05
Approx Number of People Speak: 221 million people.
Primary Countries the language is spoken: Saudi Arabia, Syria, Jordan, Yemen, Egypt, Sudan, ALgeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Lybia, UAE, Oman, Iraq, Lebanon.
About: Arabic languages are Central Semitic languages, most closely related to Aramaic, Hebrew, Ugaritic, and Phoenician. Arabic is a name applied to the descendants of the Classical Arabic language of the 6th century AD.

Bengali
Rank: 06
Approx Number of People Speak: 181 million people.
Primary Countries the language is spoken: Bangladesh, India, Singapore
About: Bangla is an eastern Indo-Aryan language.   The national song of India, national anthem of India, and the national anthem of Bangladesh were composed in the Bengali language.

Portuguese
Rank: 07
Approx Number of People Speak: 178 million people.
Primary Countries the language is spoken: Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, France, Portugal, Macau.
About: Portuguese is a Romance language. This language is rank 07 where Approximately 178 million people speak Portuguese as a native language, second language & foreign language. 

Russian
Rank: 08
Approx Number of People Speak: 144 million people.
Primary Countries the language is spoken: Mongolia, Russia, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Belarus, China, Estonia, Georgia, Israel, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, U.S., Uzbekistan.
About: It is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia and the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages. The language is one of the six official languages of the United Nations.

Japanese
Rank: 09
Approx Number of People Speak: 132 million people.
Primary Countries the language is spoken: Japan, Singapore, Taiwan.
About: Japanese Language is primarily spoken in Japan, where it is the national language. It is an East Asian language spoken by about 125 million speakers.

German
Rank: 10
Approx Number of People Speak: 90 million people.
Primary Countries the language is spoken: Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Czech Rep.,Kazakhstan, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Slovakia, Paraguay, Poland, Romania, Switzerland.
German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely spoken first language in the European Union.
About: German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely spoken first language in the European Union. This language is rank 10 where Approximately 90 million people speak German as a native language, second language & foreign language.




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