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which are the most spoken languages of the world?

how many of them are from india?

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  • Anonymous
    9 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    The most spoken languages of the world from India are

    only two

    hindi and bengali basically and punjabi is the 10th one of the top 10 list.

    these two languages are spoken by more than about 400 million people in the world.

    *hindi is our national language

    *bengali is spoken in west bengal,tripura,orissa,assam,andaman and nicobar islands etc in india

    and bangladesh

    *punjabi in punjab ,hariyana and pakistan

    Source(s): ac
  • 9 years ago

    Languages by native speakers

    Mandarin - 845 million (2000)

    Spanish - 329 million (1986–2000)

    English - 328 million (2000–2006)

    Estimated numbers today.

    Mandarin - 1000 million

    Spanish - 500 million

    English - 375 millon

    Languages by number of students

    English.

    Spanish.

    French.

    Mandarin.

    To answer your question, the most spoken language in the world is Mandarin.

  • 9 years ago

    I'll quote from wikipedia and link to more info below. Bear in mind that all 10 of these have over 100 million native speakers. Rest of them is inside the wikipedia link below.

    1. Mandarin

    2.Spanish (Castillan)

    3.English

    4.Hindi-Urdu(Hindustani)

    5.Arabic

    6.Bengali

    7.Portugeese

    8.Russian

    9.Japanese

    10.Punjabi

    To answer your other question, 3 of these 10 are from or around India

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    Mandarin

    Spanish

    English

    *Hindi-Urdu

    Arabic

    *Bengali

    Portuguese

    Russian

    Japanese

    *Punjabi

    There are three languages in the top 10 list that are spoken in India.

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  • 9 years ago

    Pos Language Family Script(s) Used Speakers

    (Millions) Where Spoken (Major)

    1 Mandarin Sino-Tibetan Chinese Characters 1151 China, Malaysia, Taiwan

    2 English Indo-European Latin 1000 USA, UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand

    3 Spanish Indo-European Latin 500 Mexico, Central and South America, Spain

    4 Hindi Indo-European Devanagari 490 North and Central India

    5 Russian Indo-European Cyrillic 277 Russia, Central Asia

    6 Arabic Afro-Asiatic Arabic 255 Middle East, Arabia, North Africa

    7 Portuguese Indo-European Latin 240 Brazil, Portugal, Southern Africa

    8 Bengali Indo-European Bengali 215 Bangladesh, Eastern India

    9 French Indo-European Latin 200 France, Canada, West Africa, Central Africa

    10 Malay, Indonesian Malayo-Polynesian Latin 175 Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore

    11 German Indo-European Latin 166 Germany, Austria, Central Europe

    12 Japanese Altaic Chinese Characters and 2 Japanese Alphabets 132 Japan

    13 Farsi (Persian) Indo-European Nastaliq 110 Iran, Afghanistan, Central Asia

    14 Urdu Indo-European Nastaliq 104 Pakistan, India

    15 Punjabi Indo-European Gurumukhi 103 Pakistan, India

    16 Wu Sino-Tibetan Chinese Characters 90 China

    17 Vietnamese Austroasiatic Based on Latin 86 Vietnam, China

    18 Javanese Malayo-Polynesian Javanese 85 Indonesia

    19 Tamil Dravidian Tamil 78 Southern India, Sri Lanka, Malyasia

    20 Korean Altaic Hangul 78 Korean Peninsula

    21 Turkish Altaic Latin 75 Turkey, Central Asia

    22 Telugu Dravidian Telugu 74 Southern India

    23 Marathi Indo-European Devanagari 72 Western India

    24 Italian Indo-European Latin 62 Italy, Central Europe

    25 Thai Sino-Tibetan Thai 60 Thailand, Laos

    26 Burmese Sino-Tibetan Burmese 56 Myanmar

    27 Cantonese Sino-Tibetan Chinese Characters 55 Southern China

    28 Kannada Dravidian Kannada 47 Southern India

    29 Gujarati Indo-European Gujarati 46 Western India, Kenya

    30 Polish Indo-European Latin 46 Poland, Central Europe

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    In the population there are 1 to 2 billion people and their main religion is Buddhism

  • Jessav
    Lv 6
    9 years ago

    Spanish (Spain and all Latinamerica except Brazil)

    Chinese (Because of the high population of the country)

    English (It became the "common" language)

  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    BEST ANSWER

    1 ENGLISH

    2 SPANISH

    3 CHINESE MANDARIN

    4 ARABIC

    5 PORTUGUESE

    6 RUSSIAN

    7 JAPANESE

    8 JAVANESE

    9 FRENCH

    10 MALAY -INDONESSIAN

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    Mandarin (Chinese), English and French.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    english

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