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which are the most spoken languages of the world?
how many of them are from india?
12 Answers
- Anonymous9 years agoFavorite 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 - Jason RodriguezLv 49 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.
Source(s): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_languag http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandarin_Chinesee http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_language - 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
- Anonymous9 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
Source(s): http://www.krysstal.com/spoken.html - Anonymous9 years ago
In the population there are 1 to 2 billion people and their main religion is Buddhism
- JessavLv 69 years ago
Spanish (Spain and all Latinamerica except Brazil)
Chinese (Because of the high population of the country)
English (It became the "common" language)
- Anonymous6 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
- Anonymous9 years ago
Mandarin (Chinese), English and French.
- Anonymous9 years ago
english