Comments on: 30 most spoken languages in the world

By: sachin

sachin — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:40:27 +0000

Proud to be Indian with Hindi as 3′rd Largest spoken language in the world.

By: Luis

Luis — Wed, 20 May 2009 10:46:35 +0000

… and german 200 million??!!
let me see:
Germany – 83 million
Austria – 8 million
Lichtenstein 0,005 million
Belgien – 0,1 million
Swizerland – 3 million
Luxembourg – 0,1 million
Namibia – 0,2 million
Italy – 0,5 million
France – 1,4 million

Other Countries: 4 million
Dänemark
Slowakei
Tschechien
Romania
Hungary
Argentina
Chile
Paraguay
Brasil

At most 100/110 million speakers!!

By: Luis

Luis — Wed, 20 May 2009 10:14:36 +0000

Hey Adrian, how did you get the nummber for french speakers?
In Belgium there are 3 official languages and native French-speakers make up about 40% of the country’s population
In Swizerland there are 4 official languages… less than 20% speak french.
In Canada official with english, but no more than 9 million speak french.
In Africa estimated 115 million.
In France 65 million.
I would say about 200/210 million native speakers…

By: adrian

adrian — Tue, 19 May 2009 21:08:31 +0000

so please befora saying stupid things use your brain it ll be good for you in the future

By: adrian

adrian — Tue, 19 May 2009 21:06:18 +0000

Everything is false check your numbers…this is the true list beacause you need to use official numbers

1 Mandarin Chine, Taïwan, Singapour 1 200
2 Anglais Etats-Unis, Royaume-Uni, Canada, Inde, Australie 1 080
3 Hindi Inde, Pakistan 725
4 Français France, Canada, Belgique, Suisse, Afrique, Asie du Sud-Est, Antilles, Océanie 520
5 Espagnol Espagne, Amérique Latine 389
6 Russe Russie, CEI 275
7 Arabe Afrique du Nord, Moyen-Orient 259
8 Portugais Brésil, Portugal, Mozambique, Angola 221
9 Bengali Bangladesh, Inde 210
10 Allemand Allemagne, Autriche, Suisse 200
11 Malais Indonésie, Malaisie, Bruneï, Thaïlande 180
12 Japonais Japon 132
13 Italien Italie 125
14 Ourdou Inde 104
15 Panjabi Inde 100
16 Vietnamien Vietnam 90
17 Wu Chine 80
18 Télougou Inde 80
19 Tamoul Inde, Sri Lanka 78
20 Javanais Indonésie 76
21 Coréen Corée du Nord, Corée du Sud 75
22 Marathi Inde 75
23 Turc Turquie 75
24 Cantonais Chine 70

By: Luis

Luis — Mon, 04 May 2009 14:13:02 +0000

Hey Julio!
Portuguese is the only official language in Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe, Mozambique.
… and also official in Equatorial Guinea (along with french and spanish), in Macau (along with chinese)and East Timor (along with Tetum).
Some other countries are teaching portuguese at primary school to be used as second language in countries such as Uruguay, Argentina or Senegal…
Number of native speakers: about 220 million

PS: The Largest city in the world is: Tokyo, Japan – 28,025,000 (I don´t believe they speak spanish over there)and the second one is Mumbai in India…

By: Julio Tejada

Julio Tejada — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 04:17:58 +0000

By the way, the 2 official languages of the United States are En-
glish and Spanish.The rest of the Americas speak Spanish; except Brazil which adopted recently Spanish as an Official languages,though the main language is Portuguese,
On the other hand The Guyanas Speak English, French and Dutch respectevely.
Mexico being the largest and most populated city in the world
speak Spanish.

By: supernattoman

supernattoman — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 02:26:26 +0000

I like Nigerian English – it is a throwback to the Victorian days. The paper boasts headlines that read “Assaults by Cutlass Wielding Brigands Plague the City” instead of the -er- modern, “City Terrorized by Gang with Machetes”

By: remora

remora — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:36:28 +0000

also, i should have remembered – Apu from the Simpsons.

(again – no offence intended)

rem.

By: remora

remora — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:23:00 +0000

well let me explain.
Just as Japan has Engrish or Japlish..so India has something known as Indlish or Hindlish (?)

a strange mixture of local words wrapped up in what sounds like something out of The Importance of Being Earnest..or Peter Sellers Indian Doctor in the Millionairess

(They must getting it all from a bunch of Merchant Ivory period movies.)

*But to be fair, India has the third largest number of English speakers in the World (god bless ‘em)*

I’m just making an observation..that’s all.

remora

By: Raj

Raj — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:09:51 +0000

“why does Indian English sound so ornate and Victorian ?”

Err, what?

By: remora

remora — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:30:21 +0000

why does Indian English sound so ornate and Victorian ?..is this a legacy of colonialism come back to haunt us.

By: Raj

Raj — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:16:36 +0000

By the way, thanks for the effort – I wasn’t having a go at you.

By: Raj

Raj — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:15:18 +0000

Edward, where did you come across that rubbish website? It looks like some school kid’s homework.

The list is clearly wrong, as Tofu has already pointed out. There’s upwards of 100 million people in India who speak English. What about the people in Africa, Caribbean, Oceania apart from Australia and New Zealand?

The guy has simply stuck the largest English-speaking countries together, not taking into account people who speak a fair degree of English or indeed fluently as a second/third/etc language! What a load of rubbish.

By: TofuUnion

TofuUnion — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:18:27 +0000

Apparently at least 2000 millions people can communicate in English, which is de facto universal language in the world and used as the common language in many Asian and African countries such as in India, Philippine, Nigeria, etc. Even in continent Europe, English is mostly used as second language.

Mandarin can be understood only in China, Taiwan, Singapore and Malaysia. At most, 1500 millions people can understand it.

In the third group, Spanish, Arabic, Russian, Portuguese, French and German are used in multiple countries. Other languages could be categorized as the local ones. I don’t know if it’s a good thing or not, that only 8 languages are dominating in the world.

By: remora

remora — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 07:36:59 +0000

any mention in that list about common sense and good manners? or have those concepts been trash-canned in this age of flaming & trolling.

(*_*)

remora

By: Brian Engel

Brian Engel — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 05:41:18 +0000

It would be interesting to compare this list with a list of land area covered by language. The list by population tells you how many people you can communicate with given a certain language and a list by area tells you where you can go (travel, move, etc.) with a certain language. Want to meet a lot of people, learn Mandarin; want to travel, learn Russian or Spanish (I would guess).