World Languages
There are thousands of languages in the world, but most of them have few speakers compared with the major tongues. Some experts predict that between 50 and 90 percent of the world's languages will become extinct this century. Languages need at least 100,000 speakers to service.
Major Languages
Languages - Speakers In Million- Areas
chinese Mandarin- 873 - China, Taiwan
Spanish- 322-Spain,Latin America
English - 309 -UK,USA,Canada,Ireland,Australia,New Zealand
Hindi -180- North India
Portuguese-177-Portugal,Brazil
Bengali-171-India,Bangladesh
Russian -145 -Russia, The CIS
Japanese -122-Japan
German, standerd -95 -Germany,Austria,Switzerland
Chinese, Wu -77- China
Javanese -75 -Java (Indonesia )
Telugu-69- Andhra
Marathi - 68- Maharashtra
Vietnamese -67- Vietnam
Korean -67-North and South Korea ,China ,Japan
Tamil -66- Tamilnadu,Srilanka ,Malaysia
French-64 -France Belgium,Canada ,Switzerland
Italian - 61- Italy
Punjabi,Western-60 -Pakisthan
Urdu -60 - Pakisthan , India
Chinese ,Yue- 54 - China
Turkish- 50- Turkey
Arabic ,Egyptian-46-Egypt
Chinese Min Nan- 46- China
Gujarathi - 46-Gujarat(India)
Chinese, Jinyu -45- China
Polish -42- Poland
Ukrainian-39-Ukraine,Russia,Poland
Chinese, Xiang-36 - China
Malayalam-35- Kerala (India)
Kannada- 35 - Karnataka (India)
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